Illinois

K9 Dax located two 17-year-old teens who allegedly stole a Tesla from Vernon Hills Saturday morning.

An Illinois man has died from rabies. It was the first human case of rabies in the state since 1954.

An arrest warrant has been issued for an Oak Lawn woman who failed to appear for her first court date after allegedly using a phony COVID-19 vaccination card that misspelled Moderna to get into Hawaii for a vacation without quarantining.

The LaSalle County coroner confirmed Thursday that a body found in the Illinois River on Sept. 4 is missing Illinois State University graduate student Jelani Day.

When Nathaniel Butler Sr.’s daughter told him her on-again, off-again boyfriend had hit her, he took matters into his own hands, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.

The Illinois family of a vaccinated woman who died of COVID-19 says her death could have been avoided if more people were vaccinated.

An Illinois Subway restaurant employee says she’s been suspended from her job shortly after a video of her fighting off a robber went viral.

Video allegedly shows the mom threatening her 12-year-old son with a gun because she wanted her SD card. Prosecutors say she shot him once, answered the phone, asked for the SD card again, and shot him again.

Chicago police are speaking to a person of interest in the murder of a pregnant woman found in Lake Michigan last month, a police spokesperson said Friday.

With back-to-school in full swing, safety experts and law enforcement are urging parents to be mindful of what they share in regards to a popular social media photo trend with kids – as it could make them easy targets for predators.

Beginning next year, students in Illinois schools will be able to take up to five excused mental or behavioral health days.

A Chicago police lieutenant allegedly shoved a flashlight between the buttocks of a handcuffed carjacking suspect and then yelled to the 17-year-old "That’s what you get for carjacking," prosecutors said Thursday at a felony bond hearing for the officer.

Hawaiian authorities became suspicious when they noticed "Moderna" on the vaccine card was spelled wrong. It was spelled "Maderna," court documents allege.

A pregnant woman who was found floating in Lake Michigan earlier this month has been identified.

A mother says a Cook County judge has taken away her parental rights after learning that she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.

Investigators say a pregnant woman found floating in Lake Michigan earlier this month had been stabbed to death.

Since the pandemic began last year, nine children 15 years old or younger have died from COVID-19 in Cook County

A house in west suburban Lyons is now a crime scene, after the resident told police that he buried his mother and sister in the back yard after they died.

Two men were killed and another was seriously injured in a shooting caused by "internal gang conflict" outside the Kankakee County Courthouse on Thursday morning, according to the Kankakee Police Department.