Harlan Altepeter, missing Chisago County hunter, found dead near Wild Rose Wildlife Management Area
Searches were held for Harlan Altepeter, 56, of Minnesota, after he failed to return from his deer hunt.
Searches were held for Harlan Altepeter, 56, of Minnesota, after he failed to return from his deer hunt.
With Election Day approaching on Nov. 3, voters across the greater Chicago area can check their polling places online before heading to cast their ballots. The location where you vote depends on where you live, and election officials in...
Wednesday is Veterans Day, a time for the country to honor the men and women who have served in the U.S. military.
A brief brush with winter will bring the Chicago area its first flakes of the season before sunnier, milder weather returns. Chicago snow forecast Lake-effect snow and rain are expected Friday, especially near the lake. Slushy...
A 43-year-old Chicago man faces a felony gun charge after Cook County sheriff's deputies allegedly found a loaded firearm beneath his Celtics jersey during a downtown traffic stop. Traffic stop leads to firearm discovery The Cook County...
A new felony charge adds to the cases facing a Chicago man held in Cook County Jail, where he awaits trial in three separate murder cases. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said correctional staff saw 21-year-old Anthony Nunnally...
A 21-year-old suburban man was killed while paragliding on Saturday in southwest suburban Plainfield , according to local officials. The Kendall County Coroner’s Office said it responded to a possible death related to a paragliding...
Lake effect rain will transition to a wet snow tonight and could make a mess of your Friday morning commute – depending on where you’re driving. Areas along and mainly east of I-57 are the favored areas for impacts. The National Weather...
A 42-year-old Chicago man is facing a felony gun charge after Cook County sheriff's deputies discovered a stolen firearm at the foot of his bed while enforcing a court-ordered eviction on the South Side. Marecko Green was arrested Oct....
<p>A Chicago police sergeant died Tuesday after being found unresponsive at a police station on the Northwest Side, officials said.</p><p>The sergeant, identified as 49-year-old Timothy Martin, was on duty when he was found around 1:14...
A Chicago police sergeant appears to have died by suicide while on the job Tuesday afternoon at CPD's 17th District station on the city's Northwest Side.
<p>Someone fatally shot the CEO of a violence prevention group who worked in violence-plagued areas of Chicago on Saturday night in suburban Chicago Heights, officials said. </p><p>Andre Thomas, 57, was found with multiple gunshot...
A Matteson man was fatally shot in Chicago Heights on Halloween night, and police are asking people nearby to check their surveillance video. Andre Thomas killed in Chicago suburb Chicago Heights police said officers...
<p>A 21-year-old woman from Chicago was killed during a shooting attack Monday at a Hammond, Ind. Walmart, officials announced Tuesday. </p><p>An autopsy determined Dakota Norwood died of multiple gunshot wounds and her death was ruled...
<p>A Cook County judge who presides over domestic violence cases says she was a victim of a convicted felon who posed as the son of a Colombian drug lord.</p><p>Jeanne Wrenn is among at least three influential women with whom Jawad...
Three women came forward Wednesday to say they've carried the lasting effects of sexual abuse they endured as children at the hands of a Salvation Army youth pastor for nearly three decades — along with the burden of what they describe...
Three women who say they were sexually abused as children by a former Salvation Army youth pastor are accusing the organization of failing to protect them and covering up what was happening at its Tri-City Corps in...
Three women are speaking publicly about experiences they say they kept private for more than two decades. Salvation Army sex abuse lawsuits Two women, Kristy Wynveen and Lindsey Gauthier, filed separate lawsuits in...
The season's first snowfall is heading to the Chicago area and northwest Indiana. A Winter Weather Advisory takes effect at midnight across portions of the south and southeast suburbs as a lake-effect weather system shifts from rain to...
This story is part of an investigative series coproduced by the Chicago Reader and Invisible Institute. In 2024, Douglas Dyhrkopp, state’s attorney of Gallatin County in southern Illinois, began receiving complaints that a veteran law...
Chicago police are searching for a man who broke into a Gresham home where he sexually assaulted a woman and robbed her Friday morning on the South Side. Police are looking for the armed person who broke into a South Side home and...
A Cook County court filing describes how a man allegedly entered a young woman’s Auburn Gresham apartment, held her at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her before leaving with stolen belongings. Chicago home invasion,...
CHICAGO — An investigation is underway after a four-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound on the city's South Side on Wednesday morning. According to Chicago police, the shooting occurred just after 9 a.m. on...
The man allegedly assaulted a woman at the central London station after she helped him find the right platform.
A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered a 55-year-old man charged in an Auburn Gresham home invasion and sexual assault to remain in custody, finding he poses a threat to the public.
A man was fatally shot in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood Tuesday evening, according to Chicago police. CHICAGO — Police are searching for answers after a man was found shot to death on the city's Northwest Side on Tuesday afternoon....
CHICAGO — A man is facing a first-degree murder charge after a 27-year-old was stabbed to death last year in Belmont Cragin. Jose Ramos, 25, was arrested on Tuesday in the 3800 block of North Leclaire. According to...
A 19-year-old man was found shot to death on Chicago's Northwest Side Tuesday night, Chicago police said.
A suburban community is mourning after an Evanston Township high school student was killed in a crash early Monday. A high school student was killed in a north suburban crash involving a Chicago Tribune box truck early Monday morning,...
A high school student was killed in a north suburban crash involving a Chicago Tribune box truck early Monday morning, officials said.
Police in suburban Deerfield are investigating a fatal overnight crash involving a Chicago Tribune box truck and a crossover SUV that left one person dead and briefly shut down a major roadway. The collision happened...
A 19-year-old accused of plotting a mass shooting at a suburban Chicago Hindu temple returns to a Cook County courtroom Monday, facing formal indictment while pressure builds for federal intervention. Alexandros Paporakis was arrested...
Democratic nominees are projected to sweep the four open seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago’s nine-member board Tuesday. There were three six-year seats and one unexpired two-year seat up for grabs....
ST. CHARLES, Ill. — A driving instructor from St. Charles was arrested in Hungary after failing to appear to his trial. He was subsequently sentenced to 30 years in prison. Paul Bocska, 60, went on the run and police issued an alert for...
A St. Charles driving instructor who fled to Europe to avoid trial was sentenced to 30 years in state prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a student. Paul Bocska, 60, was sentenced late last month in...
A Monday morning shooting at a Walmart in northwest Indiana left a woman dead and a suspect in custody. Hammond Walmart shooting Hammond police said officers responded to Walmart North around 9:09 a.m. after an off-duty Hammond officer...
A 21-year-old Chicago woman was shot and killed Monday morning at a northwest Indiana Walmart, the Lake County, Indiana Coroner's Office said Tuesday.
<p>Early voting and mail-in ballot turnout in suburban Cook County for the midterm elections has surpassed turnout in the 2022 gubernatorial election by nearly 30% so far, Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said Monday. </p><p>More than...
Live election results for the November 2026 Cook County judicial retention elections.
<p>As faith leaders representing multiple religious traditions, we are unified in the conviction that every human life possesses inherent worth and dignity. That includes those who are incarcerated and awaiting trial. </p><p>Over...
<p>A person was found dead in a burning car early Friday in Roseland on the Far South Side. </p><p>Around 12:15 a.m., officers responded to a vehicle fire in the 10800 block of South Eggleston Avenue where the person was found and...
<p>A 26-year-old man shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood has died, officials announced Tuesday. </p><p>Ricardo T. Bryant, 26, was shot Monday about 10:45 a.m. in the 3100 block of West Ohio Street, police and the Cook County medical...
<p>Police are investigating following the death of a newborn whose teen mother gave gave birth at a Far South Side school Wednesday afternoon in the Riverdale neighborhood.</p><p>The 15-year-old girl gave birth around 3 p.m. Wednesday...
An Amtrak train collided with a vehicle Wednesday morning in Western Springs, leaving two people dead and at least one injured. WESTERN SPRINGS, Ill. Covered by 6 outlets: 1 lean left, 5 are not rated.
WESTERN SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) - Mourners in Western Springs lay flowers and light candles feet from the train tracks where a crash claimed two young lives. Wednesday, just after 8 a.m., at the Wolf Road crossing, an...
Update: Two Pleasantdale Elementary School children were killed, and an adult was seriously injured, Wednesday after an Amtrak train at a Western Springs Metra railroad crossing crashed into a car they were in,...
Two people were killed and one person was hurt in a fiery crash on Wednesday. All BNSF service was halted near Western Springs, Metra said.
A train struck a vehicle in Chicago's west suburbs Wednesday morning, disrupting BNSF service and closing two roads. Western Springs train crash Metra said an Amtrak train struck a vehicle near Western Springs....
Democrats’ nationwide blue tsunami swept through Springfield on Tuesday night, too, running up the state party's super majorities toward historic highs in the Illinois General Assembly. Covered by 3 outlets: 1 lean left, 2 are not rated.
Queer representation in the Illinois General Assembly expanded Tuesday as two openly LGBTQ+ candidates won seats in the state House, joining returning lawmakers as other candidates competed in races across Illinois....
Illinois voters will decide all 118 seats in the state House of Representatives on Nov. 3, as candidates compete for the chance to shape state policy in Springfield. Democrats currently hold a supermajority in the...