Mark Curran

Sen. Dick Durbin is blasting Republican Mark Curran for comments the candidate made about U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who passed away Friday at the age of 80. Curran, the former Lake County sheriff who is running against Durbin for a seat in the United States Senate, criticized Lewis’ support of abortion rights during his life, saying that the Congressman...

Mark Curran won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate Tuesday, the Associated Press projects, defeating four other candidates to challenge incumbent Sen. Dick Durbin in November.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin will be up for re-election in 2020, and he now knows one of his challengers, as former Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran will attempt to unseat the Senate Minority Whip.

A Deerfield man was arrested Friday for indecent solicitation of a child after trying to meet and engage in sexual acts with who he thought was a 14-year-old boy.

Three Wisconsin men found Wednesday morning near north suburban Antioch with guns, drugs and monkey masks inside their vehicle were on their way to retaliate against another group over an earlier confrontation, according to authorities.

A police dog helped officers locate a missing man suffering from mental health problems last week in northwest suburban Barrington.

A Northwest Side man has been charged with a pair of ruse burglaries earlier this summer in north suburban Deerfield and Long Grove.

A suburban man has been charged with sexually abusing a child he met on a social media app, authorities said Friday.

A suburban man has been charged with supplying the heroin that caused a woman’s fatal overdose in March.

Two people overdosing on heroin were saved within hours of each other this week in the northwest suburbs.

The wife of disgraced Fox Lake Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz, who authorities say took his own life in a “carefully staged suicide” following years of criminal acts, has been indicted by a grand jury.

The wife of disgraced Fox Lake Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz, who authorities say took his own life in a “carefully staged suicide” following years of criminal acts, has been indicted by a grand jury. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.