Kane County jail

After two detainees tested postive for the coronavirus and several showed symptoms, the Kane County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that Kane County Jail was placed on a quarantine lockdown. This week, Kane County Jail saw the first two confirmed cases of coronavirus among detainees since the pandemic began, leading to new health precautions for inmates and employees. The Sheriff’s...

A man is accused of having sexual contact with a child he met online in west suburban Aurora. Ronald Lye, 50, is charged with 13 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and two counts of traveling to meet a minor, the Kane County state’s attorney’s office said in a statement. Lye drove to the child’s home, picked them up...

A man was convicted Friday of making a false bomb threat at the Hollywood Casino in west suburban Aurora.

An Elgin man is accused of distributing multiple videos of children being sexually abused and tortured.

A man from west suburban Aurora was sentenced to almost a decade in prison for punching a man in the face and leaving him with significant facial injuries.

An Aurora man was sentenced to prison this week for sexually assaulting two children over a period of 13 years.

An Aurora man was arrested last week after authorities found cocaine and ecstasy during a raid of his home.

An Aurora man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly ran from police who saw him hide a gun behind a garage.

A man has been sentenced to more than 2 years in prison after pleading guilty to fatally stabbing a co-worker at a meat plant in northwest suburban Hampshire.

An Aurora man was allegedly found digging up a old grave Thursday in the western suburb.

A man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison following a fatal shooting of a man two years ago in a west suburban nightclub.

A former youth pastor at an Aurora church has been charged with sending sexual text messages to a minor.

An Aurora man was sentenced Thursday to 68 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child he knew, as well as sexually assaulting a second victim.

The fatal shooting of a Kane County Jail detainee in last year by a SWAT team officer during a standoff at a west suburban hospital has been ruled justified, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a statement Thursday at the close of their review.

A man has been sentenced to 29 years in prison for his role in a 2014 robbery that left three KFC employees shot and wounded in west suburban Aurora.

A man was charged after allegedly exposing himself to multiple children and touching one of them with his genitals while they played at a public swimming pool Monday afternoon in northwest suburban Elgin.