Bellwood

A man is accused of stabbing an elderly family member dozens of times using a “samurai knife,” killing her inside her Bellwood home before leaving with a phone and envelopes of cash. Isaiah Jones, 20, is charged with first-degree murder in Thursday’s killing of 76-year-old Jearlean Willingham, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. At a court hearing Sunday, prosecutors described Willingham as his “step-great-grandmother” and said...

A suburban Chicago family has filed a federal lawsuit against the Village of Bellwood following an early morning police raid that occurred as the result of a prank emergency call.

A suburban Chicago family has filed a federal lawsuit against the Village of Bellwood following an early morning police raid that occurred as the result of a prank emergency call. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

A suburban DuPage County judge set bond at $150,000 Saturday for a Bellwood police commander who was charged with three counts of possession of child pornography. According to the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office, John Trevarthen, 45, of Lombard, used a personal IP address as well as an IP address owned by the village of Bellwood to view child pornography…

A Bellwood man is accused of illegally videotaping three girls in a Hinsdale home where he was hired to do construction work. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin charged Jose Gaspar, 45, of Bellwood, with one count of Unauthorized Videotaping (Class 4 Felony) and two counts of Unauthorized Videotaping a Person Under Eighteen (Class 3 Felony). Berlin said that in…

A west suburban man is facing animal cruelty charges after one dog was found dead and another emaciated earlier this year at his Bellwood home.

Investigators are trying to figure out why an ambulance driver in the Chicago suburb of Bellwood smashed the vehicle into a building with such force that it killed him, a co-worker and a patient.

A children’s hospital in Chicago hosted its annual tradition where an Easter bunny hops from room to room to deliver personalized baskets to patients dressed in their ‘Sunday best.’

A suburban Chicago couple whose 19-year-old son allegedly shot them to death at his college dormitory in Michigan raised him and their two other children well, a family friend said Sunday. James Eric Davis Sr. — who went by his middle name — and his wife, Diva, were “doting parents” and raised James Eric Davis’ Jr. “phenomenally,” said Jordan Murphy,...

The family of a suburban Chicago couple who police say was shot and killed by their 19-year-old son at his college dormitory in Michigan said they want the teen to know “he has not been abandoned.”

A 19-year-old student is charged with killing his parents last week in his university dorm room. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.