Will County

Ill. Man Quits Job Search To Open Safe Hangout For Teens

newlenox.patch.com | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Dan Stinnett, New Lenox, Will County, The Hub, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Greatest Person of the Day, Lincoln-Way North, Impact News

Twenty-seven, living at home and barely making an income. It's not an uncommon story these days, but for Dan Stinnett it's a choice. The director o...

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Woman Accused Of Using 'Intimate Area' To Smuggle Gun Into Prison

Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Statesville Prison, Will County, Vagina Gun Smuggler, Aisha McClinton, Gun Smuggling, Aisha N. McClinton, Statesville Correctional Center, Joliet, Chicago News

A woman who was visiting an inmate at the Stateville Correctional Center has been sentenced after allegedly trying to smuggle a gun into the prison--b...

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Illinois-Indiana Shooting Spree Remains A Mystery

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indiana Shooting Spree, Illinois-Indiana Shootings, Brian Dorian, Illinois-Indiana Shooting Spree, Brian Dorian Cleared, Will County, Honey Bee Killer, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Authorities say there are still no suspects in random shootings two months ago that terrorized residents along the Illinois-Indiana st...

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Gun Used In Tanning Salon Robbery Matches 'Honeybee' Killer's Weapon

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gary Amaya, Will County, Illinois Crime, Jason Mcdaniel, Illinois Shooting Spree, Honeybee Killer, Honeybee Killer Dead, La Tan Robbery, Gary Amaya Honeybee Killer, Chicago News

In October, a disheveled gunman fatally shot a man and wounded two others in rural parts of Illinois and Indiana. The assailant approached his victim...

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Lawyer: Botched Investigation Ruined Lynwood Cop's Reputation

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Prosecution, Honeybee Killer, Will County, Brian Dorian, Will County State's Attorney, Joliet, Will County Court, Chicago News

JOLIET, Ill. — After the release of a small-town police officer wrongly jailed for shootings along the Illinois-Indiana border that left one dea...

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Suburban Cop Accused Of Shooting Spree To Appear In Court

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brian Dorian, Chicago Suburbs, Lynwood Police, Will County, Police Shooting, Lynwood Cop Shooting, Police Misconduct, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago police officer suspected in a shooting spree in Illinois and Indiana that left one man dead and two other people wo...

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Father Of Murdered 3-Year-Old Reacts To Killer's Guilty Plea: 'I Hope He Rots In Hell'

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, Riley Fox, Illinois Crime, Will County, Kevin Fox, Scott Eby Guilty, Riley Fox Murder, Scott Eby, Chicago News

JOLIET, Ill. — For eight months, Kevin Fox sat in a jail cell as a suspect in his 3-year-old daughter's death, knowing prosecutors wanted him ex...

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Sex Offender Pleads Guilty In Murder Of 3-Year-Old Riley Fox

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Eby Guilty Plea, Riley Fox Murder, Scott Eby, Riley Fox, Will County, Scott Eby Guilty, Riley Fox Case, Chicago News

JOLIET, Ill. — A convicted sex offender pleaded guilty Wednesday in the 2004 sexual assault and murder of a 3-year-old suburban Chicago girl who...

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WATCH: Friend Of Wrongly Accused Cop PUNCHES Cameraman

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago News, Wrongful Prosecution, Will County, Will County Court, Joliet, Will County State's Attorney, Brian Dorian, Honeybee Killer, Video, Chicago News

A Lynwood police officer who was accused of a shooting spree that left one man dead and two others wounded near the Illinois-Indiana border has been r...

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Mistaken Identity? Murder Charges Against Cop Dropped

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brian Dorian, Lynwood Illinois, Honeybee Killer, Lynwood Police Department, Will County, Will County Court, Honey Bee Killer, Chicago News

JOLIET, Ill. — A small-town police officer arrested in a shooting spree along the Illinois-Indiana border is no longer a suspect after investiga...

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Cops: Man Tries Giving Away His Sister's Belongings On Craigslist

AP | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Paul Grachan, Family Drama, Will County, Craigslist Feud, Craigslist, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago man is accused of taking family bickering too far by allegedly posting a fake Craigslist ad that said his sister was giving ...

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Scott Wayne Eby, Accused Riley Fox Killer, Pleads Not Guilty

NBC Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Wayne Eby Plea, Riley Fox Murder, Scott Eby, Riley Fox, Cold Case, Will County, Scott Wayne Eby, Chicago News

The man accused of killing three-year-old Riley Fox pleaded not guilty to the murder Thursday. Scott Wayne Eby, 38, who's currently serving a 14-ye...

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100-Year-Old Woman Facing Foreclosure: State Tells Aunt Aggie's Niece To BACK OFF

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Foreclosures, Agnes Farm Foreclosure, Will County, Save Anges Farm, Illinois Farm, Foreclosure, Agnes Farm, First Midwest Bank, Foreclosures, Monee, Anges Albinger, Aunt Aggie, Bridget Gruzdis, Chicago News

A few months back, thousands of people rallied around a 100-year-old Will County woman who was facing foreclosure. Agnes Albinger, or "Aunt Aggie" h...

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Homer Township Declares English Their Official Language, Says It's Not About Race

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homer Glen, Steve Balich, Will County, Arizona Immigration, Homer Township English, Homer Township, Homer Glen English, Racism, Illegal Immigration, Chicago News

Many Chicagoans took to the streets to protest Arizona's tough immigration law when it was implemented in April, but some village trustees in Will Cou...

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'Aunt Aggie' Faces Foreclosure: 100-Year-Old Woman Raised 40 Foster Kids On Her Monee Farm

Chicago Tribune | Colleen Mastony, Tribune Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Anges Albinger, Illinois Farm, Aunt Aggie, Will County, Monee, Agnes Farm, Agnes Farm Foreclosure, Foreclosure, Save Anges Farm, Illinois Foreclosures, Chicago News

Let the bankers come with their foreclosure notices. Invite the building inspectors, too. At 100 years old, Agnes Albinger has lived on her 70-acre pa...

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Cops Missed Major Clues In Murder Of 3-Year-Old Girl For Six Years

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Riley Fox, Scott Eby Shoes, Riley Fox Evidence, Will County Sheriff's Office, Riley Fox Murder, Illinois Cold Case, Evidence Ignored, Will County Murder, Will County Crime, Cold Case Solved, Will County, Kevin Fox, Illinois Crime, Mishandled Evidence, Scott Eby, Chicago News

In June of 2004, the body of 3-year-old Riley Fox was pulled from a creek near her home in Will County. As police attempted to build a case against Ri...

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Kevin Fox Receives $8 Million In Damages; Wrongly Charged Of Raping And Murdering Daughter

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Riley Fox, Kevin Fox Lawsuit, Kevin Fox, Will County, Melissa Fox, Chicago, Illinois, Riley Fox Murder, Chicago News

A Will County man was wrongly charged with raping and murdering his 3-year-old daughter in 2004, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. But the cou...

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Chicago LOSERS Of The Week (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Budget, Riley Fox, Chicago Traffic, Will County, Chicago Losers, Ron Huberman, Losers of the Week, Chicago News

We cover a lot of city and state politics here at HuffPost Chicago, which makes it SO easy to find losers every week. At the same time, the losers in ...

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Riley Fox Murder: Jailed Sex Offender Scott Eby Charged With 2004 Rape, Murder Of 3-Year-Old Girl

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Will County Crime, Riley Fox, Kevin Fox, Cold Case Solved, Illinois Crime, Will County, Riley Fox Murder, Scott Eby, Will County Murder, Illinois Cold Case, Chicago News

A jailed sex offender was charged Thursday in the rape and murder of 3-year-old Riley Fox, whose body was found in a Will County creek in 2004. Scot...

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Deadly, Ultra-Pure Heroin Arrives In US

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ultra-Pure Heroin, Mexican Drug Cartels, St. Louis, Heroin Overdose, Pure Heroin, Will County, Chicago, Heroin, Mexican Drug War, Drug Overdose, Chicago News

WINFIELD, Mo. — Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so p...

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Clifton Williams, Illinois Man, Jailed For Yawning Freed After 3 Weeks

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Man Jailed for Yawning, Clifton Williams, Jail for Yawning, Contempt of Court, Judge Daniel Rozak, Will County, Chicago News

JOLIET, Ill. — An Illinois judge has freed a man who had been in jail for three weeks after letting loose a loud yawn during a sentencing hearin...

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Has the Drew Peterson-Kathleen Savio Story Awakened Will County Politicians and Law Enforcement?

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolingbrook, James Glasgow, Will County, Roger Claar, Kathy Savio, Drew Peterson, Pat O'Neil, Jeff Tomczak, Drew Peterson Case, Kathleen Savio, Drew Peterson Investigation, Chicago News

For four months I explored how authorities in Bolingbrook, Will County, and at the Illinois State Police managed to let a screaming woman slip silently through the cracks. So why couldn't I tear myself away from a week-old Sports Illustrated to watch the Drew Peterson arrest coverage?

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