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A historic church that served a rural Will County community for more than 150 years was destroyed in a fire Sunday, authorities said. At approximately 1:35 p.m., an EMS crew with the Beecher Fire Protection District was on the scene of an ill subject call at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church when they were alerted to a fire in the church….

Fire officials in suburban Beecher say that the pilot of a small plane is dead after the aircraft crashed on Monday morning. According to authorities, the Beecher Fire Protection District responded to reports of a plane crash just after 10 a.m. Monday near the intersection of West Offner Road and South Nacke Road. Units arrived on the scene less than…

A judge has refused to dismiss reckless homicide charges filed against a northern Illinois man for a 2017 crash that killed a pregnant woman and her three sons.

A donation fund has been set up to help the Schmidt family in wake of the heartbreaking accident that claimed the lives of a pregnant mother and her three children.

A 6-year-old boy has died of his injuries following a horrific south suburban crash that claimed the lives of his pregnant mother and two younger brothers this week.

Nearly 80 animals, including several dogs, were found living in their own feces inside a home in suburban Steger, where a squatter had allegedly been living for several years.