Elgin PD’s Safe Together Police Academy starts in May. Applications are available for the Elgin Police Department’s Safe ...

Elgin detectives were dubious when their chief suggested starting a true crime podcast to help find Karen Schepers. But it ...

Detectives Matt Vartanian and Andrew Houghton from the Elgin, Illinois, Police Department's Cold Case Unit are shedding new ...

There are no resources,” Corneal Westbrooks says, recalling his struggles with his younger brother Jawaun, now in prison for fatally stabbing a Chase bank employee in 2021.

DIXON, Ill. — Congressman Sean Casten, a Democrat who’s held 85 town halls in his suburban Chicago district, took his show on ...

Illinois lawmakers passed more than 600 bills ahead of their self-imposed deadline to move legislation out of the House or ...

The 1983 case of Karen Schepers was solved 42 years later. Elgin detectives share how their podcast 'Somebody Knows Something' helped crack the case.

The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics worked with authorities in Elgin and Lawton to carry out a major drug bust. Elgin police ...

Police responded to a shots-fired report in the 700 block of East Elgin this morning. No injuries were reported, and ...

On the latest episode of The Takeaway with Alex Maragos, Detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian of the Elgin Police Department talked about how the discovery almost didn’t happen.

The drunken driving arrest last month was Spencer's second. On Jan. 12, 2022, his blood alcohol was three times the legal ...