Lake County Canine Units Save Two People In Round Lake Beach and Waukegan
Two Lake County Sheriff's Canine Units saved two people in Round Lake Beach and Waukegan on Sunday.
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Two Lake County Sheriff's Canine Units saved two people in Round Lake Beach and Waukegan on Sunday.
The victim was eating at a restaurant when he spotted Dakota Ryan Koch wearing a pair of his shoes, which had been stolen in the burglary.
She scratched the ticket at home and, thinking she had won $200, took it back to the store to be scanned, at which point she learned she'd hit the jackpot.
When a woman accidentally drove, with her three children, into a Round Lake Beach retention pond during Wednesday night's storm, two passersby acted heroically.
Three teens face reckless homicide charges, after they allegedly dragged a man from their car when they cheated him out of his cell phone.
Jose Herrera, 19; Juan Nunez, 18; and Adrian Robledo Garcia, 19, each face felony counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated battery with a firearm, Round Lake Beach police announced Wednesday evening.
A 15-year-old boy was shot Monday night in northwest suburban Round Lake Beach.
Officers found 30-year-old David Gorski of Libertyville unresponsive in a dark colored Volkswagen Jetta last Friday.
Cody Powell now faces felony charges of escape and criminal damage to government property.
The entire pickup nearly went into the house, with "only about 18 inches" outside of the building.
What goes around comes around in Round Lake Beach. Repo men grabbed the vehicle of a Zion resident who allegedly was inside a Walmart trying to steal electronics.
The suspect forced entry into Raymond Ellis School, 720 Central Park Drive, around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Christmas Eve, police said in a community alert issued Friday with surveillance images.
An arrest warrant was issued earlier this week for Jeremy Anderson, 36, for two counts of first degree murder, according to the Round Lake Beach police department.
A manhunt was underway across the Chicago area, after a domestic dispute ended in murder in far north suburban Round Lake Beach.
Police in Lake County are looking for the person who shot and killed a man in Round Lake Beach Saturday night.
One of the final images jurors saw in the murder trial of Jose Rebollar-Vergara was videotape of victim Gabriel Gonzalez, fatally shot, falling down in front of a Round Lake Beach convenience store, trying to access his cell phone and struggling to his feet before he collapsed and died.
Temperatures were around 4 degrees (not counting wind chill) around 7:30 p.m. when the Greater Round Lake Fire Protection District got the call, and when they pulled up to 129 Glenwood Drive, smoke already was showing.
A man invited a friend to a north suburban home earlier this month to watch the Bears-Packers game, but instead, along with two others, gagged and beat him in a bungled abduction attempt over a windfall inheritance.
The two-car crash happened at 2:47 p.m. Saturday at Route 83 and Millstone Drive, north of Hook Drive at the Sweet Water Mill Mall.
A 6-year-old girl was killed in a traffic crash Saturday afternoon in north suburban Round Lake Beach.
A repeat DUI offender from Round Lake Beach has been sentenced to serve more than a dozen years in prison.
A grandmother in far north suburban Round Lake Beach was scammed out of more than $4,000 after getting a frantic call from a person she believed was her granddaughter.
The intended target tells CBS 2's Jim Williams that suspect Ricardo Rodriguez, 19, was very upset over their breakup.
The Salvation Army has literally struck gold with several anonymous donors in the northern suburbs.
A Round Lake Beach teen has been honored for his quick thinking when a fire broke out in his neighborhood.
Since opening two years ago, Prohibition THCafé has been hit three times, not for the merchandise but for the cash in the ATM and the slots.
When Artemis II took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier this month, it was a massive undertaking that wouldn't have been possible without a teeny-tiny part.
The Coast Guard is the only United States armed service affected by the partial government shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security.
The suspect was charged with felony burglary for the crime in Oak Lawn and two felonies for burglary and theft in Chicago Ridge.
The Cubs have won 12 of their last 15 games.
Illinois lawmakers are not planning to pursue a constitutional amendment on redistricting after a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.
Spirit Airlines only has enough available cash to continue operations for a matter of days, not weeks, and talks for a government-backed rescue of the no-frills carrier have stalled, sources say.
Illinois Democrats resoundingly decried the Supreme Court's decision Wednesday that significantly weakens the Voting Rights Act.
The war with Iran is now in its ninth week, and Congress is concerned about the reduction of global munition stockpiles and the ability to restock them.
The Supreme Court rule 6-3 in a decision that has implications for the scope of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
In the legal venue of anti-trust enforcement, the state is not taking on the Trump administration, but rather filling a void that state officials say the Trump administration has vacated.
A passenger on an American Airlines flight from New York to Chicago has been charged with making a false bomb threat that forced an emergency landing at Detroit Metro Airport last month, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Skyrocketing property taxes continue to be a hot-button issue in Cook County — particularly since last fall, when many residents saw their tax bills increase by 100% or more.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias this weekend issued a warning about a surge in text messages that falsely claim to come from his office or the DMV within it.
Tenants at a South Loop luxury high-rise that has been plagued with problems like broken elevators are vowing to fight five-day eviction notices.
The second-largest physicians' group in the U.S. has issued a surprising switch in breast cancer screening recommendations.
A new $48 million wellness center opened Thursday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. The goal is to improve the health and quality of life for people on the West Side of Chicago.
La Rabida Children's Hospital went all out for Earth Day on Wednesday, with volunteer cleanup efforts by staffers and activities for patients and families.
It has been several weeks since West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois, abruptly shut down — and then on Wednesday, it just as swiftly partially reopened, with some services available.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 80% of deaths related to pregnancy are preventable, and Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.
A $170 million-plus plan announced this week will redevelop the Water Tower Place mall on the Magnificent Mile.
The Holiday Club in Chicago's Buena Park neighborhood will soon be going out of business, as the building that houses the popular bar is set to be torn down.
At a meeting on Tuesday, the Lincolnwood Village Board approved a pre-development agreement with the mall, providing a roadmap with the property owner for further preparations and government approvals for redevelopment.
The only remaining location of Pal Joey's pizzeria in Batavia, Illinois, will soon be going out of business, its owner announced this week.
Investment research firm Morningstar could move into the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago once Google is done renovating the former Illinois state government building.
Some youngsters got a behind-the-scenes look at the magic of making opera Sunday at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Matt DeCaro, an actor who was a familiar face on the Chicago stage for many years, died this weekend.
Jake was at the funeral for one of his closest friends when he learned of his parents' deaths, he said.
Tickets for the 2026 Ravinia Festival season went on sale Thursday morning.
The satirical news outlet The Onion has a new plan to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars platforms and turn them into parodies.
According to the 86-page court indictment, the two restaurants were used to facilitate the collection and distribution of gambling revenue from agents, bookies, and betters, with payments ranging from hundreds to as high as $50,000.
Lows tonight and Thursday night fall to near 40 degrees which will help patchy frost develop. The latest in your First Alert Weather.
Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Kevin E. Lunday urged Congress this week to fund DHS and shared stories of coasties delaying medical care, going into debt, and living in financial uncertainty.
And it's not Artemis II that Chemring Energetic Devices manufactured the NASA standard initiator for. They have been making them for NASA since Apollo and have created products for SpaceX and the Air Force.
The owner of the business said he wasn't alarmed because this was not the first time his surveillance had captured a burglary crew.
Federal agents from the FBI, Customs and Border Protection and the IRS were at two restaurants and a home in Northwest Indiana, removing boxes and hard drives as part of an investigation.
Since opening two years ago, Prohibition THCafé has been hit three times, not for the merchandise but for the cash in the ATM and the slots.
When Artemis II took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier this month, it was a massive undertaking that wouldn't have been possible without a teeny-tiny part.
The suspect was charged with felony burglary for the crime in Oak Lawn and two felonies for burglary and theft in Chicago Ridge.
The parents of Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman, killed in a Chicago shooting in March, vowed "we will get justice for our daughter" after her accused killer pleaded not guilty.
A top administrator in the Libertyville school district has been placed on leave after a fiery school board meeting focused on how the district handled allegations of grooming leveled against a former teacher.
Potholes along one stretch of road in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood are so bad, people say they damage their cars just getting to work.
There are so many issues with the DNA evidence in the case that Payne's conviction has been overturned, and a retrial has been ordered.
A mother in southwest suburban Morris, Illinois, is fighting for stiffer penalties for adults charged with grooming children. Some local lawmakers agree, saying Illinois' current law is too weak and puts kids in danger.
Almost 24 hours after a derailment made a mess of the Red, Purple, and Yellow lines in Chicago, the CTA continued to investigate the cause of the incident, and experts were raising concerns about what they called a troubling pattern.
The Cubs have won 12 of their last 15 games.
Reese is all smiles as she returns to Chicago to face her former team, the Sky, in preseason action on Wednesday night.
Rookie Sam Antonnaci hit a tying triple with two outs in the ninth inning and Colson Montgomery had a winning single in the 10th, lifting the Chicago White Sox over Los Angeles 3-2 for a three-game sweep that extended the Angels' losing streak to six.
Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a three-run homer and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night to stop their three-game slide.
Colson Montgomery homered in the second off Angels starter José Soriano (5-1), ending his shutout streak at 25 2/3 innings.
A woman has been charged with shooting a 15-year-old boy outside an indoor track facility near Gately Park in Chicago in 2024, after getting into a fight with another woman during a back-to-school event in the Pullman neighborhood.
Sexual abuse charges were filed this week against a Park City, Illinois, police officer.
Attorneys for the man convicted of the murders of two girls in Delphi, Indiana, have filed a new brief with the Indiana Court of Appeals to overturn his case.
Attorneys for a woman convicted of killing her 69-year-old landlord in Chicago's Arcadia Terrace community have filed an appeal.
Police in Cicero, Illinois, were investigating after burglars targeted gaming machines at a slots and video poker business early Wednesday.
