Illinois

An Illinois man was sentenced to three years in prison after an open red plastic cup of beer he was carrying led to his arrest on a weapons charge.

Illinois man accused of fatally beating a fellow resident at a nursing home with a walker after a fight over the laundry room.

Texas man accused of trying to smuggle cocaine to Indiana while hiding it in a Wendy's cheeseburger, officials said.

A livestock guardian dog who holds the record for the world's oldest pooch ever recently died at 31. Here are the secrets to why he lived so long.

A man on furlough from jail in Illinois forced an elderly woman inside her home and killed her. Now, he will spend decades behind bars for murder.

Beginning in the late 1960s, the Zodiac Killer dressed in an executioner's hood and terrorized San Francisco by murdering multiple people.

A 10-year-old Illinois boy's body was found in a garbage can in his mom's garage. Now, police say he'd been dead for seven months.

A former "Family Feud" contestant has been found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder and home invasion in the killing of his estranged wife in Illinois.

A man in Illinois was fatally shot during a road rage incident. Now, officials say the shooter was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

John Wayne Gacy lured innocent boys and young men into an awful den of despair, killing at least 33 during a six-year wave of terror in the 1970s.

A 9-year-old Chicago boy was fatally shot while playing outside his grandma's birthday party, according to authorities.

Drew Peterson was sentenced to 38 years behind bars for murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. After his sentencing, Peterson whimpered like a baby.

A suspect was taken into custody in Tennessee nearly a year after he allegedly shot two teenagers during a road rage incident in Illinois, authorities said.

A man in Illinois dreamt that his home was being robbed, so he grabbed his gun and shot the suspect. However, he shot himself in the leg, police said.

A 15-year-old boy is now the second teenager in custody accused of murdering a beloved drummer in Chicago, authorities said.

An Illinois man called to a residence by his girlfriend after her ex-boyfriend showed up is now accused of attempted murder, police said.

An Illinois man accused of killing his mother and stepfather accepted a plea deal that required him to admit to only his stepfather’s murder, officials said.

A man in Illinois will spend 50 years in prison after he strangled a 17-year-old girl to death. The man used Disney cups to lure the girl into his house.

An Illinois girl has been missing for almost six years after her non-custodial mother abducted her. Now, police say she was found safely in North Carolina.

Four teenagers in Chicago were arrested following the fatal shooting of a city police officer who had just finished her shift, officials announced.

A convicted sex offender in Illinois smothered a high school freshman to death and then disposed of her body in a dumpster, authorities claim.

A pair of thieves in Chicago were allegedly caught stealing $1 million from an armored truck after cops used an Apple AirTag to track the bags, police said.

A man in Chicago was in a drug-fueled state when he allegedly stabbed and strangled his quadriplegic father to death, according to authorities.

A corrections employee in Illinois was arrested on a first-degree murder charge after he fatally shot a man outside a nightclub, officials said.

A man in suburban Chicago ran someone over in a parking garage with a bicycle, then swung an ax at him, police say.

An Illinois woman has pleaded guilty to murder after she threw a 3-year-old child against the wall and didn't seek medical help, officials said.

Two young parents in southern Illinois are charged with murdering their three-month-old baby boy by fracturing his skull and ribs.

An Illinois man has been found guilty of murder after getting into an argument with another man over driving and stabbed him in the heart, officials said.

A man who mistakenly spent months behind bars for the rape and murder of his daughter near Chicago has died in a car crash in Arkansas.

Late-night loudness along a lakeshore led to the death of a man at a forest preserve north of Chicago, and two men are charged with murder, authorities say.

A man who was convicted of a Chicago murder in the early 1990s went free Thursday, after prosecutors admitted they lacked evidence to put him on trial again.

An Illinois woman was found shot to death in her home and police say her estranged husband, who once appeared on 'Family Feud', has been arrested.

An Illinois man awaits sentencing after he was convicted of strangling a teenage girl he lured to his home with the promise of Disney cups after a garage sale.

A 17-year-old boy is accused of entering his girlfriend’s home and killing her and two other people in what police called a “domestic-related” incident.

An unlicensed child care provider in Chicago is accused of killing a newborn baby girl who was in her care, authorities said.

An 11-year-old girl was repeatedly stabbed and then dumped in a bathtub. Now a jury has convicted her father's girlfriend of the brutal murder.

An Illinois woman was shot and killed by a man she claimed was stalking her. Now police are on the hunt for the suspected murderer.

A schoolgirl in Illinois has been found guilty in connection with an attack on classmates that left one dead and another injured.

A decomposing body was found in a storage unit in Illinois. Now the woman was charged with murder after determining man poisoned to death.

A St. Louis woman was reported missing in 2013 by her family. Ten years later, an Illinois man has been charged with her murder.

An Illinois teacher has been arrested after police say he was in possession of child pornography. He is being held in jail and awaiting extradition.

Two EMS workers who responded to a home and put a man face down on a gurney have been arrested. The man died soon after the incident in the hospital.

A 25-year-old Illinois man has been arrested in connection to a 2016 sexual assault case. The case remained open before a DNA match came from the lab.

A fight between neighbors over a barking dog citation led to a deadly stabbing, police said. Illinois authorities charged the suspect with first-degree murder.

A teen was found dead in Illinois and that started a manhunt for a murder suspect. Police announced they caught the suspect in Mexico this week.

Two suspects were arrested in Oklahoma in connection with the fatal shooting of a teenager in Illinois, authorities said. One of the suspects is a minor.

A Chicago man who went on a killing spree, murdering six family members during a robbery, was sentenced to life in prison. It's unknown why he killed them.

A 19-year-old man who police say gunned down a 64-year-old man with a "ghost gun" has been arrested. Jaylen Lewis is charged with first-degree murder.

A Chicago man was arrested after he killed and dismembered a drug dealer because he was upset how much the price of drugs had risen, prosecutors said.

A Florida man was charged with multiple felonies after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman who was a guest at a hotel in Illinois, authorities said.