A 14-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were accused of theft and criminal damage after they allegedly attempted to steal a car in the South Chicago neighborhood Tuesday, police said.
Brother of James Weiss, a businessman convicted of bribing state officials, plans to plead guilty later this month to charge he lied to federal investigators about Weiss’ contacts with Outfit hit man.
Nine-year-old Natalie Sieracki spent her sister’s softball game in Horner Park Saturday evening cartwheeling on the grass. She didn’t notice the large, unleashed dog nearby until it attacked her. When she broke away from the animal, she raced towards her parents in the bleachers, screaming and crying. Her back was covered in bite marks. Blood gushed from her leg. “She was traumatized,” her mom, Marci Sieracki, recalled Tuesday. “She was writhing in pain. It was just awful.” The attack has left some residents with mounting frustrations towards unleashed dogs in public parks. Just a few hundred feet from the attack […]
Three new lawsuits have been filed alleging a pattern of sexual hazing on the Northwestern football team, a scandal that has ballooned in scope since it first surfaced last summer.
John Shadbar, of the 16500 block of West 144th Place, Lockport Township, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery as well as felony possession and use of a firearm, according to police.
The increase in Lake County overdoes is not just a local issue, but a nationwide problem, Deputy Chief Steve Newton said. In 2023, the national overdose death rate topped 112,000 for the first time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A trio of armed robbers struck overnight Tuesday at three businesses taking money from cash registers and employees, Chicago police said. The first robbery happened about 9:50 p.m. in the 1800 block of West 47th Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said. Three male robbers entered a business with guns and demanded […]
A woman accused of suffocating her newborn twin sons 21 years ago pled guilty to their murders Tuesday and will serve 20 years in prison, according to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office. Antoinette Briley, 44, was convicted six years after authorities reopened an investigation into the deaths of two infants found in the trash in unincorporated Stickney Township in June 2003, according to the sheriff’s office. Detectives first identified Briley as a suspect and the twins’ possible birth mother using DNA evidence from a discarded item found in her hometown of Holland. After her arrest, Briley confessed to killing […]
Christopher M. Young, of Flossmoor, convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old Homewood girl in December 2013, was sentenced Monday to 30 years in jail, according to court records.
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.