Hoffman Estates Crime

Public might not get to see report on bribery allegations

Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 20, 2022 7:15 PM - The Cook County Board of Review hired a high-profile Chicago law firm last year through a contract worth up to $110,000 to look into alleged bribery in the county office -- but it's unclear if the public will get to see the results of the firm's work.
Police: Hoffman Estates woman with BB gun charged with misdemeanors

By Eric Peterson
Jan 13, 2022 6:25 PM - An 18-year-old Hoffman Estates woman faces misdemeanor disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property charges after police determined she had a BB gun at a village intersection Wednesday morning, causing a school bus driver to report her as a threat.
Republicans call for hearings on DCFS

By BETH HUNDSDORFER
Jan 13, 2022 4:56 PM - Three Republican state House members called for hearings into the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Thursday out of concerns for workers' safety, improper placements of state wards and the recent death of North Chicago boy.
Hoffman Estates woman in custody after report of person with gun puts schools on lockdown

By Eric Peterson
Jan 12, 2022 1:59 PM - An 18-year-old Hoffman Estates woman is in police custody after a motorist reported seeing a person with a gun at the intersection of Governors Lane and Haddam Place in the village just before 7 a.m. Wednesday.
The year in crime: First-degree murder, DUI-related deaths, sexual assault among the major suburban crimes for 2021

By Doug Graham, Susan Sarkauskas and Barbara Vitello
Jan 5, 2022 6:00 AM - Here's a look back at some of the major crimes that took place in the suburbs in 2021 -- crimes which included first-degree murder, DUI-related deaths and sexual assault.
Cook County medical examiner: Gun-related homicides broke records in 2021

By Barbara Vitello
Jan 3, 2022 9:10 PM - The Cook County medical examiner on Monday confirmed 1,087 homicides in 2021, the first time the county has topped 1,000 in 27 years. The year also included a record number of gun-related homicides.
Cook County judge carjacked at gunpoint

Chicago Sun-Times
Dec 31, 2021 3:48 PM - A Cook County judge was carjacked at gunpoint along with a 3-year-old boy late Thursday in Humboldt Park.
Zorn: The long litany of Foxx falsehoods on Smollett

By Eric Zorn
Dec 27, 2021 1:00 AM - Eric Zorn: The vast understatement of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's admission that she "didn't handle (the Smollett case) well" in an October 2019 interview with Axios came clear in the 59-page report from the Office of the Special Prosecutor released to the public last week.
Editorial: State's Attorney Foxx, our non-prosecuting prosecutor

Daily Herald Editorial Board
Dec 25, 2021 2:00 PM - In this editorial, the Daily Herald warns that the failures in the Jussie Smollett case represent just the highest profile examples that Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx does not protect the public from crime.
Report details 'major failure' in Foxx's office's handling of first Smollett case

By Andy Grimm
Dec 20, 2021 7:59 PM - A Cook County judge Monday ordered the release of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb's full 60-page report into his investigation of the procedural miscues and public misstatements about Jussie Smollett's case made by State's Attorney Kim Foxx and her top staff.

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