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A St. Charles man who claimed he was God after stabbing his father to death in 2017 was found not guilty Thursday when a judge ruled that he was legally insane at the time of the slaying.

Authorities have released a composite sketch of a person who made sexual comments to a 12-year-old girl last month in northwest suburban Mount Prospect.

Two people were struck by stray gunfire Monday evening in the South Shore neighborhood, about a block from where a man was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer two days earlier.

A man died two days after receiving blows from a liquor store security guard near the border of the Chatham and Park Manor neighborhoods on the South Side.

A 68-year-old man was found dead in a Lasalle County field Friday after a “skydive accident,” authorities said.

A 42-year-old Chicago man died Tuesday night in an industrial accident after becoming trapped between a laundry conveyor belt and a dryer in north suburban Niles.

A worker at a suburban laundry business was killed on Tuesday night.

An Indiana parolee was charged with shoving packages of meat and cans of V8 juice down his pants at a grocery store, the Times of Northwest Indiana reports.

A man shoved meat into his pants in an attempt to steal it, police say.

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Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a person wanted in an open assault investigation in west suburban Naperville.

An elderly man and woman visiting Wisconsin from the Chicago area were killed in a crash with a drunk driver over the weekend.

An elderly man and woman visiting Wisconsin from the Chicago area were killed in a crash with an drunk driver over the weekend, according to Outagamie County Sheriff officials. Patrick Fazio reports.

A man from Hobart, Indiana, has requested “chemical castration” as a condition of his release, the Post-Tribune reports.

A north suburban man wanted on a warrant ran out of a hospital wearing only a patient gown last week, but was soon captured after he stole a pair of pants from a nearby vehicle, authorities said.

A man is wanted for allegedly touching a 9-year-old child in a grocery store Monday afternoon on Chicago’s Northwest Side, police said.

A man died Monday after being injured in a crash at what police called an “extremely dangerous intersection” in Elgin.

A man died after being struck by a piece of equipment Wednesday at an asphalt paving business in northwest suburban Lake Zurich.