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Several people in the Chicago area spotted a meteor streaking across the sky Wednesday night.
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Several people in the Chicago area spotted a meteor streaking across the sky Wednesday night.
An Elgin man is scheduled to go on trial Monday for the fourth of July 2011 killing of a teenager he claims was going to steal from him.
He was serving his second tour in Afghanistan, when a U.S. Marine from Elgin was killed in combat this week. Cpl. Alex Martinez died Thursday in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
A United States Marine from northwest suburban Elgin died in Afghanistan while "conducting combat operations," according to a release issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense.
A day after CBS 2 reported three residents of the same Elgin street had their identities stolen, more victims stepped forward.
Three Elgin residents on the same street have recently fallen victim to identity theft. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports on what may be behind the crimes.
There was the girl whose truck clipped a median and flipped, ejecting and killing her. There was the teenage boy whose car slammed into and killed a bicyclist.
It's the time of year dreaded by suburban school districts – when RIFs, or reductions In force, are announced.
The eagle has landed – several of them, in fact – in the Fox Valley.
Crime in Elgin is at a 40-year low, but police said they're also seeing a dramatic spike in burglaries, which shot up 31 percent last year.
A suburban small business on the brink of collapse is now thriving again, thanks to an outpouring of community support.
Some Elgin residents were on lockdown Wednesday night as police searched for a bank robber. The robber is now in custody.
Three people escaped a house fire in northwest suburban Elgin on Sunday.
The newest Illinois casino helped to raise the state's take from gambling for the first time since 2007.
Are people being targeted by vandals in one suburban neighborhood or are they just innocent victims? That's the question Elgin police are trying to figure out after several cars were vandalized Monday – and it wasn't the first time.
Two men were charged Saturday night after they shot off more than 80 rounds of ammunition to ring in the New Year in northwest suburban Elgin.
Treacherous, ice-covered roads early Thursday were blamed for numerous serious accidents across the Chicago area.
Call it a productive bust. When police caught a man red-handed stealing a car from a northwest suburban dealership last week, they also ended solving a business burglary and a counterfeit case.
Bond has been set at $1 million for an Elgin woman charged with killing a 61-year-old acquaintance in his apartment over the weekend. The victim's apartment was also set on fire.
An Elgin woman has been charged with murdering a 61-year-old acquaintance found dead in his burning northwest suburban apartment Saturday morning. Charges are pending against a second suspect, police said.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested and charged Tuesday with burglarizing three homes in northwest suburban Elgin.
About 24 people were displaced in a Friday night apartment fire in northwest suburban Elgin.
A man was arrested Sunday for allegedly robbing a jewelry store Friday in northwest suburban Elgin, and police are looking into the possibility that he may have been involved in other burglaries in the area.
Police in northwest suburban Elgin are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the armed robbery of a Payday Loan Store on Sunday.
A man attacked a the driver of a vehicle and stole her cell phone Sunday in northwest suburban Elgin.
