Cook County Crime
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Elgin police: Man stole BMW from driveway, sparked drunken chase before crash
Feb 14, 2019 12:25 PM - A McHenry man who was found not guilty on charges he set a homeless woman on fire after she refused to have sex with him in 2014 is held on charges he stole a BMW from an Elgin driveway and sparked a chase near the city's downtown that ended when he crashed into a snow bank. -
Medical examiner identifies man shot to death near Palatine
Feb 2, 2019 4:46 PM - A 20-year-old man who died Friday after being shot near his home in an unincorporated area near Palatine was identified Saturday as Jose L. Castaneda Jr. by the Cook County medical examiner's office. -
How specialty courts helped suburban woman break the cycle of arrest, conviction, jail
Feb 2, 2019 4:37 PM - For Aurora native Teena Branch, the criminal justice system was like a revolving door: arrest, incarceration, release, repeat. She credits a special Cook County court program with breaking that cycle. -
20-year-old man dead in Palatine shooting
Feb 1, 2019 7:35 PM - Cook County Sheriff's Police late Friday afternoon responded to a report of a shooting in an unincorporated area near Palatine off of Silver Lane, officials said. -
Why Lake County's new sheriff is taking a stand on shutdown, immigration
Jan 25, 2019 5:30 AM - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg is stepping into the national debate about immigration and the partial government shutdown. And federal prosecutors say a Des Plaines man was part of a nationwide "swatting" conspiracy that claimed Gurnee police and high school students among its victims.
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Jail, probation for Elgin man who drove drunk after fatal 1995 DUI
Jan 21, 2019 1:51 PM - An Elgin man who was convicted of reckless homicide in a 1995 DUI has been sentenced to several weekends in jail, probation and a year of wearing an alcohol monitoring device after pleading guilty to driving drunk in 2017. -
Roselle police investigating fatal shootingJan 14, 2019 4:54 PM - Roselle police and the DuPage Major Crimes Task Force are investigating the fatal shooting Sunday of a 22-year-old man outside his residence.
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40 years later, six victims of John Wayne Gacy are still unidentified
Dec 21, 2018 5:30 AM - On the 40th anniversary of the gruesome discovery of the first of John Wayne Gacy's 33 victims on Dec. 21, 1978, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is renewing efforts to identify the serial killer's six remaining unknown victims. -
Cook County sheriff's officer killed in Woodridge crashDec 18, 2018 10:19 PM - A 27-year-old Cook County sheriff's officer from Addison died Monday afternoon in a crash in Woodridge caused by a drunken driver, according to officials.
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Police investigating stabbing at bar near Arlington HeightsDec 18, 2018 4:20 PM - No one is in custody as Cook County Sheriff's police continue to investigate an aggravated battery and stabbing at a bar just outside Arlington Heights early Sunday that left a man and a woman hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries.
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