Aurora

Aurora Police said that officers tried "de-escalation tactics that were unsuccessful." They said the person "charged an officer while still armed with knives" and the officer opened fire.

The winners are Waubonsie Valley High School senior and poet Peter Eta and East Aurora High School junior and saxophonist Charitee Cocroft.

West Chicago police found the victim lying on the ground face up with blood coming from the back of his head.

Two winning Powerball tickets worth $50,000 were sold this week in Illinois.

An Aurora man was charged in a fatal hit-and-run that happened on the Dan Ryan Expressway in 2021.

A man died after his vehicle went into a pond early Tuesday in west suburban Aurora.

Officers discovered that a victim had their vehicle carjacked by two individuals. Later that day, officers pulled over a vehicle after witnessing a traffic violation. It was determined that the occupants of the vehicle were involved in the vehicular hijacking.

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Detectives conducted a probable cause search of the car and discovered three large vacuum-sealed bags of suspected cannabis, two Glock 19 handguns and $13,522 in cash commingled with the drugs.

A third man was sentenced for the 2021 Aurora carjacking that left a woman paralyzed. 

A man from suburban Aurora has pleaded guilty to attacking a person with a hammer in their home in 2021.

Closures are being announced in the Chicago area as residents brace for a winter storm.

The Kane County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation after the body of a teenage boy was found in an Aurora residence early last week. 

O’Neal dove into an icy pond, behind her home, to save Tyshaun LaFlore on the day before Thanksgiving. She and six Aurora police officers were given the Mayor’s Award of Valor Tuesday night.

The city of Aurora is opening its overnight warming center to the public Tuesday as temperatures begin to drop significantly.