An appeals court has upheld a former McHenry County man's conviction after he was sentenced to 126 years in prison for sexually assaulting two children over a thousand times over the span of 14 years.
Ed Zimel is not eligible to serve as an Algonquin Township trustee due to an almost 33-year-old felony intimidation conviction in Cook Couny, McHenry County Judge Joel Berg ruled Monday.
As a Kane County judge for 16 years, Donald C. Hudson presided over trials for some of the suburbs most notorious killers. But Hudson s lasting legacy won t be about those he locked away. It will be about those he helped remain free.
A local group is urging victims of a cryptocurrency scam that targeted Latinos in Chicago and the suburbs to speak up. And it wants the state attorney general to help them get justice.