Mount Prospect Crime
-
Local authorities keep plans for pre-inauguration security close to the vest
Jan 15, 2021 1:15 PM - While they decline to provide specifics, local authorities say they will be prepared for possible armed protests leading up to next week's presidential inauguration. -
Authorities: Suburban man threatened violence at Biden inauguration
Jan 12, 2021 2:37 PM - Authorities say a Chicago Heights man threatened violence at next week's inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
-
Despite security concerns, Schneider and Foster still plan to attend inauguration
Jan 8, 2021 4:22 PM - Despite concerns about U.S. Capitol security after Wednesday's incursion by a violent mob, at least two suburban congressional representatives still plan to attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration there Jan. 20. Neither U.S. Rep. Bill Foster of Naperville nor U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider of Deerfield said the attack changes how they feel about their safety. -
Tragedy and turmoil marked suburban crime news in 2020
Jan 4, 2021 11:54 AM - The sentencing of AJ Freund's parents, the reversal of a cold case murder conviction, looting in the wake of civil rights protests against police shootings, an explosion of gunfire at a short-term rental in Roselle and a deadly Arlington Heights home invasion were among 2020's top suburban crime stories. -
Cook County sees record numbers of opioid, gun deaths in 2020
Jan 2, 2021 11:36 PM - The Cook County medical examiner's office handled record numbers of opioid deaths and gun-related homicides in 2020, as well as a record number of total cases because of the addition of COVID-19-related deaths. -
Buffalo Grove chief had big plans for international police group in 2020. Fate had other ideas.
Dec 11, 2020 8:58 AM - Buffalo Grove Police Chief Steve Casstevens had big plans for what he hoped to accomplish during his year as president of the world's largest assocition of law enforcement leaders. Fate had other ideas.
-
Mother charged in 2003 murder of newborn twins, bodies dumped in trash bin near Stickney
Dec 5, 2020 5:33 PM - A Michigan woman has been charged in the 2003 murder of her newborn twin sons whose bodies had been dumped in a trash bin in Stickney Township, Cook County sheriff's police said Saturday. -
Mount Prospect police arrest two on multiple identity theft charges
Dec 3, 2020 9:00 PM - A man and a woman who police say are homeless are charged with a series of identity thefts that took place from Nov. 24 to Dec. 1 in Mount Prospect, Des Plaines, Rosemont, Chicago and Arlington Heights. -
Cook County homicides top 900 mark in 2020: What's happened in Northwest suburbs
Dec 1, 2020 6:48 PM - Cook County has recorded 902 homicides this year, marking the first time since 2016 and just the second time in nearly a quarter-century that the 900 mark has been reached. A handful of those cases were in the Northwest suburbs. -
Chief judge orders Cook County cases to be held by videoconference
Nov 23, 2020 9:23 PM - Cook County's chief judge orders pending criminal and civil cases be held by videoconference except in "extraordinary or compelling circumstances" in response to the statewide surge of COVID-19 cases.
Show 1-10 of 2,325
next »
Find Another Community
Area Publications
Community Guide
- Where Friendliness is a Way of Life
- 54,505
- 1917
- 60056
- 42.065427, -87.936217
Top Jobs
bottom clear