Stories about crime
Melissa Aud-Headlee, 35, and mother of three children, was killed in Saturday - the day before Mother's Day - in front of her Joliet home by her estranged husband Michael “Mikey” Aud-Headlee, 32, of Carmi.
A Cook County correctional sergeant is seeking to end her marriage with a man charged with attempting to murder his neighbor in Homer Township. She's under an internal investigation but the sheriff's office declined to explain why.
Prosecutors are requesting a new pretrial release hearing for a man charged with killing a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. Prosecutors contend a judge refused to follow a provision of the SAFE-T Act when allowing the man's jail release.
A Joliet woman who was killed in a murder-suicide on a public street on Saturday alleged in court filings that her husband was physically abusive to her, did not fear the police and would take away her phone so she could not call for help.
The Kane County State’s Attorney’s and Sheriff’s offices announced Saturday night that Isaiah Fields, 22, of the 5000 block of West Maple Avenue in Chicago, was arrested Friday.
The incident occurred sometime Tuesday evening in the Lockport Heights neighborhood, just outside the Lockport city limits off Smith Road and IL Route 171 (Archer Avenue).
In exchange for $16,000, a woman agreed to drop her lawsuit claiming false arrest against the City of Joliet and a police detective.
Officers responded to a report of an active fight in a parking lot in the 1100 block of South Broadway Avenue on Tuesday, April 30, involving three individuals.
A Will County judge blocked the pretrial release of a retired Illinois Department of Corrections sergeant charged with shooting and killing his son at a Plainfield forest preserve.
Plainfield Police Sgt. Luke Ostreko said a career in law enforcement can "offer so much if you’re willing to be invested in it and take the time to make it what you want it to be."
Will County forensic interviewers work on the front lines with police and prosecutors with fighting crimes against children. The interviewers allow child victims to "finally have a voice" and share their story.
A Crest Hill man pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of his infant daughter and he was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison, according to prosecutors.
A Chicago man has been charged in Will County with disclosing a woman’s private images on the website Reddit. He was arrested in Missouri and awaits extradition to Illinois, police said.
A Will County judge ordered the jail release of a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse but he suspended his court order to give prosecutors time to appeal his decision.
A judge granted default judgment after Salem Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Joliet failed to respond to a lawsuit filed against them over the death of a resident who was attacked by another resident.