McHenry County

Certain statements made by two former child welfare workers who investigated abuse allegations involving a 5-year-old boy who was later beaten to death cannot be used in their criminal prosecutions, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office said.

"Auroras could be sighted in the USA in states as far south as, e.g., Illinois and Oregon.”

Police in the northwest suburbs were investigating a serious crash Wednesday morning in Woodstock.

Two people have sued a suburban Chicago funeral home after discovering that one of them was given the ashes of an elderly woman in a mix-up instead of those of a four-month-old girl.

Investigators say that Jose Medina, 19, and Bradley Tucker, 18, broke into a cemetery in suburban Chicago, stole a John Deere Gator, and sold it on Craigslist. The buyer soon realized that the Gator had been stolen and called the cops.

A 59-year-old Crystal Lake man is accused of stealing thousands of dollars meant for the poor from his church in an unincorporated area near suburban Woodstock.

McHenry County’s top prosecutor says he won’t enforce Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s indoor dining ban amid the state’s recent efforts to rein in rising coronavirus infections and deaths.

Three people are accused of running a sex trafficking ring out of a spa in northwest suburban Spring Grove.

A 37-year-old man from unincorporated Fox River Grove was arrested Wednesday on charges of soliciting and possessing child pornography in McHenry County.

A 39-year-old woman has been arrested in Colorado after allegedly murdering two people in suburban Algonquin.

A Wonder Lake couple have been accused of leaving four children in a garbage-filled home last week in the northwest suburb.

A man who allegedly robbed a gas station in Crystal Lake on Sunday was arrested after returning later that day as a customer and being recognized by a clerk, police said.

Police have located a 3-year-old girl reported missing Wednesday in Crystal Lake in the northwest suburbs.

A 22-year-old man who sold hallucinogenic mushrooms to undercover police officers in the north suburbs was sentenced to five years in prison Friday.

A man was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in 2019 from a store in Woodstock.

A 36-year-old man of McHenry was sentenced to five and a half years in prison after being found guilty of fleeing from police in September in McHenry.

A man allegedly tried to disguise himself by wearing a wig when he broke into a home Thursday in McHenry County.

A 28-year-old McHenry man was charged with 10 counts of reproducing child pornography, which is punishable by 60 to 120 years in Prison.

Kenneth Kang was found guilty of 10 counts of attempted sexual assault in connection to the allegations from 2015, according to the McHenry County state’s attorney’s office.