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An airborne assist: Drones becoming new first responders in suburban policing

An airborne assist: Drones becoming new first responders in suburban policing

Drone technology is being embraced with growing frequency by suburban police departments that are looking to the airborne devices as automated first responders.

 
Warrenville man dead after crashing motorcycle in Crystal Lake

Warrenville man dead after crashing motorcycle in Crystal Lake

A 38-year-old Warrenville man died Saturday after crashing his motorcycle in Crystal Lake.

 
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Authorities identify man found dead near Chicago Executive Airport as Prospect Heights resident

Authorities identify man found dead near Chicago Executive Airport as Prospect Heights resident

A man found dead near Chicago Executive Airport Sunday was identified as a 68-year-old Prospect Heights resident.

 
Endless Route 56 construction? Road test mystery? Here are answers to your transportation questions

Endless Route 56 construction? Road test mystery? Here are answers to your transportation questions

“This mess has been ongoing for over two years,” one reader says of IDOT’s Route 56 project. Plus, we delve into Illinois tollway and DMV quandaries.

 
Candy crush: Long Grove chocolate shop doubles as museum to iconic bridge’s mishaps

Candy crush: Long Grove chocolate shop doubles as museum to iconic bridge’s mishaps

Long Grove is well known, notorious even, for the frequency at which the town’s iconic covered bridge has been hit by vehicles too big to pass through. Now local store Broken Bridge Treats is paying tribute to that history with a minimuseum documenting the dozens of mishaps.

 
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Woman found dead by strangulation in Schaumburg identified

Woman found dead by strangulation in Schaumburg identified

A woman found dead Thursday in a Schaumburg home has been identified by police as 43-year-old Katherine Torbick.

 
‘Fear rippled through the community’: 50 years later, Columbo murders still haunt Elk Grove

‘Fear rippled through the community’: 50 years later, Columbo murders still haunt Elk Grove

On May 7, 1976, Elk Grove Village police Detective Raymond J. Rose stepped into a Brantwood Avenue home and encountered one of the most shocking crimes in suburban Cook County history. Frank Columbo, 52, his wife Mary, 50, and their 13-year-old son, Michael, were dead. Each had been shot, bludgeoned and stabbed. “It was so horrific and out of the ordinary,” Rose said.

 
Why some lawmakers defected from the party line in megaproject bill affecting Bears stadium

Why some lawmakers defected from the party line in megaproject bill affecting Bears stadium

“Rosemont on steroids” or “billionaire boys club” are among the reasons Democrats and Republicans cited for their votes on the Bears stadium-linked megaproject bill.

 
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US denies Iran struck a military vessel during new effort to reopen Strait of Hormuz

US denies Iran struck a military vessel during new effort to reopen Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. military on Monday denied claims that Iran struck a Navy vessel as U.S. forces now offer to guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, where hundreds have been stuck since the Iran war began. Tehran over the past two months has attacked some vessels and blocked others that don’t receive its authorization.

 
Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition, his spokesman says

Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition, his spokesman says

NEW YORK (AP) — Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-mayor of New York City and a former adviser to President Donald Trump, is in critical but stable condition at a hospital, his spo...

 

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