Winthrop Harbor officials credited the swift action of firefighters for preventing additional damage to a home and a neighboring detached garage that became engulfed in flames early Thursday.

A Villa Park man has been charged with aggravated battery after hitting a victim multiple times in the head with a hammer in ...

Details continue to be withheld surrounding an extremely large police presence at the corner of Venice Avenue and Court Street in McHenry on Thursday afternoon.

One person was injured after a portion of a large tree fell onto a house and through a bedroom ceiling in Round Lake early ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has issued an Air Pollution Action Day in the counties of Lake and McHenry counties on Thursday due to elevated particle pollution.

A 44-year-old Winthrop Harbor man has been identified as the victim of a fatal motorcycle crash in Waukegan. Lake County ...

A McHenry man has been charged with reproducing or distributing child pornography after authorities discovered he was ...

A mosquito pool collected from Lake in the Hills has tested positive for West Nile virus, McHenry County health department officials announced Wednesday.

A Lake County Judge denied pretrial release for a gunman who opened fire and shot a man in the chest during an argument at a Lake Forest dog park Sunday.

An alleged gunman has been arrested and charged with robbing and shooting a 22-year-old man who was meeting up with a group ...

No injuries were reported in a fire in Mundelein that involved two cars and an attached garage, fire officials said.

A Prairie Grove man charged with kidnapping and battering a woman in a truck while armed with a gun has been sentenced to ...