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A 17-year-old girl from Spring Grove has died in the hospital after she became unresponsive while visiting a dental office in Grayslake, officials said.

Three people were arrested after a police pursuit in Wisconsin that later resulted in the car's occupants fleeing on foot into a shopping area in Gurnee Thursday morning.

The sheriff is investigating after a man was shot in the face during a possible car theft attempt on the border of Long Grove and Arlington Heights Friday morning.

A McHenry County man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after a driver was shot and seriously injured on Interstate 90 near O'Hare Airport.

A driver had to be extricated from their vehicle and transported to the hospital after a crash into a tree that caused the vehicle's engine to be detached from the car in Vernon Hills.

The coroner has released the identity of a 19-year-old man who died after he was shot in the chest when a gunman or gunmen fired shots into a home in North Chicago Saturday morning.

An elderly man was critically injured and flown to the hospital after he was found submerged in water and trapped for hours under a rolled-over tractor near Harvard Sunday afternoon.

Detectives have arrested a Waukegan man accused of drug trafficking in Lake County following an undercover operation where he allegedly sold drugs down the street from an elementary school.

A homeowner was injured after a car slammed into an attached garage and causing significant damage in Mundelein Saturday afternoon, fire officials said.

A real estate company executive from Lake Zurich has been arrested for downloading thousands of files of child sexual abuse as prosecutors say he was among the "top 10 downloaders" in the state at one ...

The sheriff says a dump truck turned in front of a motorcycle, causing a crash that left the Round Lake Beach motorcyclist dead in front of a Harley-Davidson dealership near Libertyville Friday.