Plainfield

A suburban Chicago landlord was sentenced Friday for a vicious hate crime that left a 6-year-old Muslim boy dead and wounded his mother days after the start of Israel-Hamas war in 2023.

A Plainfield landlord found guilty of a vicious hate crime that left a 6-year-old Muslim boy dead and wounded his mother days after the start of Israel-Hamas war in 2023 was due in court Friday for sentencing.

After less than an hour of jury deliberations, a verdict was been reached in the trial of a suburban man accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy after the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

After less than an hour of jury deliberations, a verdict was been reached in the trial of a suburban man accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy after the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Prosecution and defense attorneys each rested in the murder trial of a suburban man accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy after the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Prosecution and defense attorneys each rested in the murder trial of a suburban man accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy, as Christian Farr reports.

Joseph Czuba, the Plainfield man accused of stabbing 6-year-old Wadee Al Fayoumi to death, was found bloody and sweaty by Will County sheriff’s deputies investigating the attack.

Joseph Czuba, the Plainfield man accused of stabbing 6-year-old Wadee Al Fayoumi to death, was found bloody and sweaty by Will County sheriff’s deputies investigating the attack. NBC Chicago’s Christian Farr reports.

Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago landlord took a knife from a belt holder and attacked a Palestinian American woman before fatally stabbing her young son 26 times in 2023. The landlord, Joseph Czuba, is accused of fatally stabbing 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi and wounding his mother Hanan Shaheen on Oct. 14, 2023. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Shaheen...

The mother of Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy from Plainfield who was killed in an October 2023 attack that also seriously wounded herself, testified in the alleged assailant’s trial Tuesday. NBC Chicago’s Patrick Fazio reports.

A driver sustained non-life threatening injuries when a semi drove off an overpass along Interstate 55 and landed on the train tracks below on Sunday morning in southwest suburban Plainfield, authorities said.

A shelter-in-place order has been lifted for Plainfield residents Friday morning and a man was taken into custody following a barricade incident that prompted a large police and SWAT response.

A southwest Chicago suburb that has expanded rapidly over the past two decades has been named Illinois’ fastest-growing “boomtown,” according to a study from GObankingrates.

A Plainfield woman who was in search of a kidney donor for over a year has received a life-saving donation after looking at baseball games in Chicago.

Following a long search that included searching for donors at Cubs and White Sox games, a local baseball fan has received a life-saving kidney donation. NBC Chicago’s Regina Waldroup reports.

The Senate passed a resolution this week honoring Wadea Al-Fayoume, the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy from Plainfield murdered last October in what authorities called an anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate crime.

Friends and family are remembering a suburban college student who was shot and killed near the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Friday.

Friends and family are remembering a suburban college student who was shot and killed near the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Friday. Patrick Fazio has the story.

A Chicago-area college student, who was a gymnast at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, was shot and killed in an apartment late Friday night, Whitewater police said.

A suburban faith community was left grieving after a 12-year-old girl was struck and killed while exiting her family’s vehicle following an earlier crash. Gianna Lamb had attended a student ministry event at Community Christian Church in Plainfield prior to the collision on Wednesday night. “Sweet girl. In fact, the last thing that she left with from her student...