Suburban Chicago

Illinois prosecutors are investigating a former child welfare agency employee who supervised an abuse claim involving a 5-year-old suburban Chicago boy later found beaten to death, documents show. Prosecutors are exploring whether to charge Andrew Polovin with child endangerment related to Andrew “A.J.” Freund, The Northwest Herald reported. McHenry County state’s attorney investigator Robert Diviacchi filed a search warrant affidavit this...

How to pass others on a walking trail was top of mind as people in suburban Chicago took advantage of the nice weather while social distancing during Illinois’ stay-at-home order. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Police officers take an oath to serve and protect, but one suburban Chicago officer took it a step further. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

The family of a 53-year-old woman fatally struck by a vehicle last week in a Deerfield parking lot has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the alleged driver. The woman had just picked up a cake for her daughter’s birthday when she was struck about 1:50 p.m. Sept. 13 in the Deerfields Bakery parking lot in the 800 block of...

Police in Markham arrested six people and recovered more than $1 million in stolen goods following the bust of a “sophisticated” burglary ring, police said on Friday.

A woman whose body was found partially burned earlier this month behind a building in south suburban Riverdale died of strangulation, authorities have ruled. A Riverdale village inspector on a “routine inspection” found Rachel Catledge, 34, dead about 11:30 a.m. Sept. 5 in an alley behind a building in the 14000 block of South Atlantic Avenue, according to a statement...

The driver of a vehicle was taken into custody on Friday afternoon following a hit-and-run crash that killed one person in north suburban Deerfield, police said.

 The driver of a vehicle was taken into custody on Friday afternoon following a hit-and-run crash that killed one person in north suburban Deerfield, police said. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

A family in south suburban Riverdale gathered on Monday to search for answers in their loved one’s death, three days after her body was found. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports.

A family in south suburban Riverdale gathered on Monday to search for answers in their loved one’s death, three days after her body was found.

A suburban women discovered her son had sexually assaulted a minor. He has since been referred to juvenile court.