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33-year-old woman found strangled in Schaumburg home
A woman was found strangled on Sunday in her apartment in northwest suburban Schaumburg. Officers went to an apartment Sunday in the 2600 block of Clipper Drive to check on 33-year-old Tiffany Thrasher...
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Schaumburg man charged with battering his 2-month-old child
A northwest suburban man has been charged with battering his 2-month-old child. Richard Garcia, 26, faces one count of aggravated battery of a child, according to Schaumburg police. The grandparents of...
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Suspect in custody in case of strangled Schaumburg woman
A person is in custody in connection with the the strangulation of a 33-year-old woman whose body was found on Sunday in a northwest suburban Schaumburg apartment. Officers went to the apartment Sunday...
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No bond for man charged with strangling Schaumburg woman
A man charged with strangling a 33-year-old woman in northwest suburban Schaumburg was brought back from Florida and ordered held without Thursday afternoon. Bulmaro Mejia-Maya, 29, faces charges of...
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Police: College student goes missing on way home to Schaumburg
Police are searching for a 27-year-old woman who was returning home to northwest suburban Schaumburg from downstate Bourbonnais, but never made it. Sheila Khalili of Schaumburg attends Olivet Nazarene...
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Missing Schaumburg woman found dead in submerged vehicle
A body found in a car in a retention pond early Thursday in Kankakee has been identified as a missing northwest suburban woman, and her family is thanking law-enforcement authorities for bringing them...
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Police: St. Charles man sexually abused 2 children at home day care
A west suburban man sexually abused two children at his wife’s home day care during a four-year period ending in 2012, according to police. Julio R. Marquez, 72, has been charged with predatory...
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Surprises of local ponds: Mirror carp & flathead for Fish of the Week
Time to celebrate local ponds. Al Gonzalez of Wood Dale caught a distinctive mirror carp Sunday. Brother Chuck said they were fishing a pond near Schaumburg High School and had caught three common carp...
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For ‘ “Game of Thrones” guys,’ $100 Medieval Times sword saves the day
Buying a $100 sword at Medieval Times is something most people wouldn’t be inclined to do. Mac Dolan clearly is not most people. So, on June 23, when he awoke at 5 a.m. to the sound of a woman...
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Tech executives indicted for trying to obstruct SEC investigation
Two former executives of a Florida-based technology company have been indicted for conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation into a Schaumburg firm whose CEO and CFO were indicted on fraud charges...
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Family of woman strangled in Schaumburg apartment files lawsuit
The family of a woman found sexually assaulted and strangled by a neighbor in her apartment in northwest suburban Schaumburg earlier this year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Misty King filed the...
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Suspect surrenders to police in fatal Schaumburg shooting
A person identified as a suspect in a fatal shooting outside a Walgreens store Monday evening in northwest suburban Schaumburg surrendered to police Wednesday afternoon. Quentin Tillison, 37, was...
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Man charged with killing ‘acquaintance’ in Schaumburg shooting
A northwest suburban man charged with a fatal shooting outside a Walgreens store Monday evening in Schaumburg has been denied bond. Oliver L. Rhone, 37, faces a first-degree murder charge in connection...
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Cops: Man jumped out of bush, robbed and slapped victim in Schaumburg
Northwest suburban police are looking for a man suspected of robbing a person at gunpoint on Friday. The victim was walking in the 1400 block of Mercury Drive in Schaumburg when a man jumped out of a...
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Girl, 13, hurt in Schaumburg hit-and-run, police ask for public’s help
A 13-year-old girl was hurt when she was hit by a car that drove away after striking her earlier this month in northwest suburban Schaumburg. Police are asking for the public’s help in solving the...
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FBI: Man suspected of robbing 2 northwest suburban banks in 2 days
A man who robbed a bank Tuesday in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows is suspected of robbing another bank a day earlier in Schaumburg. The Fifth Third branch in the 100 block of Algonquin in Rolling...
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122 arrested in national sex trafficking sting; 2 in northern Illinois
The FBI arrested more than 100 people last week in a nationwide sex trafficking sting, including two in northern Illinois. The FBI and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children announced...
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Wisconsin man charged with bringing girl to Chicago for prostitution
A Wisconsin man is facing sex trafficking charges for bringing an underage girl from West Virginia to Chicago to engage in prostitution, according to federal prosecutors. In July, 33-year-old Blake...
View ArticleReport of man with gun in Schaumburg was ‘misunderstanding’
A call of a man with a gun Tuesday morning that forced the lockdown of an office complex in northwest suburban Schaumburg was a “misunderstanding,” according to police. About 10:50 a.m., someone...
View ArticleTCF Bank branch robbed in Schaumburg
A bank was robbed Sunday morning in northwest suburban Schaumburg. The non-takeover robbery happened at 11:30 a.m. at the TCF Bank branch at 2501 W. Schaumburg Rd. in Schaumburg, FBI spokesman Garrett...
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