A judge released a driver accused of speeding, using her phone and driving drunk when she slammed into a semi-truck, leaving her Waukegan friend, who was a mother, dead on I-94 near Gurnee. Read More

Pleasant Prairie police are searching for a man they say led police on a chase, crashed into two cars and several power poles, knocking himself unconscious. Police say 39-year-old Gil Melendez, of ... Read More

In a written statement, the organization said, '?ICE and Customs Border Patrol Control continue their attacks on suburban Chicago by recklessly chasing a vehicle through Waukegan and Gurnee, Illinois ... Read More

An 18-year-old from Waukegan, who was a Warren Township High School graduate, has been identified after he died in a motorcycle crash where he was ejected and struck by a semi-truck. Read More

A police officer in Waukegan, Illinois, was fired after he shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager and wounded the young man's 20-year-old Black girlfriend during a traffic stop earlier this week. Read More

DHS said that a U.S. citizen used her vehicle to block federal agents during a Border Patrol operation in Waukegan, Illinois. Read More

The victim, identified as Michelle Heidbrick, died from blunt force trauma after being taken to a hospital following the Sunday, Sept. 21 crash in Waukegan, Ill., ABC 7, WGN-TV and Lake & McHenry ... Read More

On Wednesday, the Lake County Coroner's Office identified the man as Jerry Jackson, of Waukegan, according to a news release from the coroner's office. Preliminary results from an autopsy show Jackson ... Read More

A chase that began on Interstate 94 in LaPorte ... near the Ripley Street exit on I-94 in Lake County Sunday afternoon. Aliexis Bou, 19, of Waukegan, Illinois, was being held in the Porter County ... Read More

Two people were captured by authorities late Tuesday in Lake County after leading police on a high-speed chase. Shelmar K. Mays Jr., 28, of Waukegan, is facing multiple drug and traffic charges ... Read More

A North Chicago man was arrested after allegedly leading Lake County deputies on a chase through Waukegan. Alantae E. Cole, 35, was wanted on multiple warrants, including domestic battery and DUI. Read More

GLENVIEW, IL - Motorists are being advised to avoid the area of a traffic crash investigation Thursday afternoon in Glenview. According to police, southbound Waukegan Road, between Winnetka Road ... Read More

High-speed chase on I-94 ends ... of water off Interstate 90 near Rosemont. His death has been ruled an accident. There's a big dust up among residents of north suburban Waukegan-over too ... Read More

IL (November 16, 2024) - Emergency crews from the Waukegan Fire Department and Waukegan Police Department responded to a serious crash involving an SUV and a bus at the intersection of Yorkhouse Rd ... Read More

A Waukegan man was killed over the weekend when he was hit by a car in Park City as he apparently was trying to cross a highway, Lake County authorities said Wednesday. The Lake County Coroner's ... Read More

The identification of a person killed early Saturday morning after crashing into a Deerfield sandwich shop has been released. Jareline Martinez, 25, of Waukegan, was pronounced dead at the scene of ... Read More

Good afternoon, Chicago. The Illinois sheriff's deputy charged in the shooting death of Sonya Massey was kicked out of the Army for the first of two drunken driving convictions in which he had a ... Read More

(CBS) - A 4-year-old child killed in a head-on crash in Waukegan, Illinois Wednesday morning has been identified ... Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS ... Read More

The crash happened on Waukegan Road between Walters Avenue and Voltz Road. Northbrook police said several officers were called to the scene at 3:20 p.m. A possible road rage incident led the ... Read More

Waukegan, IL (December 4 ... Hoffman Estates, IL (November 18, 2023) - An injury accident occurred at the intersection of... Chicago, IL - Injury Crash on Kennedy (I-90 / 94)... Chicago, IL (October 9, ... Read More

BEACH PARK, Ill. - A Waukegan man was arrested Sunday morning after crashing into a building in Beach Park while allegedly under the influence of alcohol. At about 3 a.m., Lake County Sheriff's ... Read More

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- A man was killed in a north suburban crash on Saturday morning, police said. At about 10:30 a.m., Waukegan police officers responded to a crash in the 2000 block of North ... Read More