Elburn

The following items were taken from Wheaton, Glen Ellyn and West Chicago police reports. Wheaton •Two water pumps valued at $2,600 were taken from a construction site in the 2100 block of Roosevelt Road on April 24 between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m....

An Elburn woman died sometime overnight after her vehicle crashed in western Kane County, Sheriff’s police said Thursday. About 5 a.m., police received a report of a vehicle that appeared to have been in a crash overnight. When officers arrived,...

A 78-year-old Kaneville woman died Tuesday after a fatal crash near Elburn. Lorella Huff of the 46W500 block of Main Street was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash – the intersection of Route 38 and Francis Road, police said. The...

Sorrell Blomley isn't allowed much in her 9-by-12-foot cell at Dwight Correctional Center. A bed, a toilet and some photographs kept neatly in an album. But for the past four years, Blomley also has shared the cramped space with a succession of fluffy...

The former head of the streets department for Geneva pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he used a city credit card to buy himself clothes and camping gear, Kane County prosecutors said. Steven Lemaire, 55, of Elburn, was placed on probation and...

Arsenal Road near Interstate 55 was closed this morning after the release of "petroleum byproducts" at the Exxon-Mobil refinery and is expected to remain closed through the afternoon, officials said The road was closed from the interstate to Baseline...

CHICAGO (AP) — Cheerleading isn't just jumping and waving pompoms — it has become as athletic and potentially as dangerous as a sport and should be designated one to improve safety, the nation's leading group of pediatricians says. The number...

All lanes on the Dan Ryan Expressway near the Chicago Skyway reopened this morning after demolition work on a railway bridge caused traffic shutdowns Tuesday. A demolition crew was working on a railroad bridge spanning the Ryan (I-90/94) near 64th Street...

Federal and local authorities are investigating a small fire at an Elburn-area religious center being dedicated this week. The fire at the Mata Amritanandamayi Center Chicago, 41-W-501 Keslinger Road, near Elburn in Kane County, started about 9:30 p.m....

Photos of the arrest in Elburn, Ill., snapped by WGN News viewer Brad Hruza show his neighbor, 32-year-old David Ziesel, hauled in by police, ending a long and bizarre chase that began with an armed robbery of a bank 109 miles away in LaPorte County, Ind....

A 32-year-old man who allegedly robbed a bank in unincorporated LaPorte County, Ind., led police on a pursuet that involved several police agencies from Indiana and Illinois and ended with the man being arrested in the garage of his Elburn home, according...

If you find money along I-94 in LaPorte County, don’t count it as your lucky day. Friday’s afternoon armed robbery of LaPorte Savings Bank evolved into a two-state chase with the suspect, 32-year-old David Ziesel, being arrested in Illinois...