Joliet

A special prosecutor will handle the case of a suburban Chicago police officer who was involved in a traffic crash in which another police officer riding with her was killed.

Chicago police canceled a missing person alert Wednesday for Phillip Divittorio, a 60-year-old man who was last seen Dec. 4, 2019, at the Rock Island Metra Station in Joliet.

Rodrigo Marin, 42, is charged with two counts of aggravated DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to render aid, driving without valid insurance and driving on a revoked license, according to Illinois State Police.

A Joliet police officer faces a DUI charge after a crash Sunday on Interstate 55 near Plainfield that killed her passenger, a 33-year-old Berwyn police officer

Although recreational marijuana will be legalized in Illinois starting Jan. 1, suburban police were already making far fewer arrests for crimes such as possession and manufacture of cannabis years before lawmakers signed off on legalization, police department data shows.

Mathew Rutledge, 37, was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm for the Dec. 20 shooting, according to Joliet police.

St. Francis lost to Bethune-Cookman 74-70 in San Antonio on Sunday.

Authorities say a California man was caught with $600,000 worth of marijuana after police searched his RV during a traffic stop in southwest suburban Joliet.

A Joliet man was sentenced to 118 years in prison Monday for sexually assaulting a teenage girl at their shared southwest suburban home in 2015.

A Joliet man was sentenced to 84 years in prison for sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s daughter over several years.

A Park Forest man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for driving under the influence of cocaine in a 2017 crash that killed a 16-year-old girl.

Joliet police are investigating a series of overdoses this week that could be linked to cocaine laced with fentanyl.

A Joliet man shot himself and his infant son Saturday in an apparent murder-suicide in the southwest suburb, police said.

Illinois authorities on Thursday said that more than 2,200 preserved fetal remains found stacked in the garage of a deceased doctor's home were from abortions performed in Indiana nearly two decades ago and it's up to authorities there to determine if crimes were committed.

A shooting Saturday afternoon in Joliet that wounded a 16-year-old boy happened near the route of the Mexican Independence Day parade held annually in the city’s downtown.

The man, later identified as Aikeem Kimble, 33, was pulled from the water and turned over to the Will County coroner’s office, Scholtes and Illinois State Police said