The mother of a 10-year-old boy thrown from a carnival ride in Antioch said her critically injured son has undergone major surgeries and has a "long road to recovery."
A driver has been cited for failing to stop at a stop sign and causing a crash that left a 76-year-old man, who came from Mexico to visit his children, dead in Wadsworth.
A child was flown to the hospital after being thrown from a carnival ride at the Taste of Antioch, which has been shut down by the village, Sunday afternoon.
An autopsy showed an 18-year-old woman and a 19-year-old woman both died from multiple gunshot wounds in a shooting in Waukegan, which local officials called "tragic and senseless."
The coroner's office has identified two teenage women who were shot and killed in a vehicle by a gunman in Waukegan as the mayor denounces an "epidemic of gun violence."