FBI: Carol Stream man linked to 17 bank robberies

Reported by Sara Hooker, Daily Herald

A Carol Stream man recently charged with robbing a bank in Elgin has been linked to 17 bank robberies in multiple states since last summer, according the FBI.

Jeremy Evans, 30, was arrested last Tuesday shortly after the Old Second National Bank on Route 20 and Nessler Road was robbed.

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Elgin bank robbery suspect in custody

Reported by Elena Ferrarin, Daily Herald

Miller and two veteran Elgin police officers nabbed a 30-year-old Carol Stream man just five minutes after getting a call at 9:16 a.m. Tuesday morning that Old Second National Bank on Route 20 at Nesler Road had been robbed, Elgin Police Cmdr. Glenn Theriault said.

No one was injured in the robbery, which ended when police spotted the man at 9:21 a.m. on Route 20 at the other end of town, near the Bartlett border. The man was apprehended without incident, police said.

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Elgin man faces criminal sexual assault charge

Reported by Elena Ferrarin, Daily Herald

An Elgin man was ordered held on $75,000 bail after being charged with criminal sexual assault, according to Kane County bond call records.

Tracy Haugabook, 32, was arrested sometime after the victim, a Berwyn woman, called Elgin police Sept. 27 to report the incident, according to police records. The date of Haugabook’s arrest wasn’t immediately known.

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Cop comes home to burglary in progress

Reported by Elena Ferrarin, Daily Herald

An Elgin man was charged with felony burglary after a police officer caught the man burglarizing his home Wednesday night, Elgin police said.

Ryan Hukill was arrested at about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday when the police officer came home for a dinner break, Elgin Police Cmdr. Glenn Theriault said.

Hukill and the police officer are neighbors, although they had never spoken before the incident, Theriault said. They live in different sides of a condominium building served by two separate entrances, he said.

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Water main break closes Route 31 in Elgin

Reported by Elena Ferrarin, Daily Herald

All four lanes on Route 31 between Wing Street and Big Timber Road in Elgin were closed for about four hours Thursday while public works staff repaired a water main break, officials said.

The break was reported about 9:15 a.m., south of Frazier Avenue, Police Cmdr. Glenn Theriault said. By then, he said, there was “a significant amount of water on the road.”

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Elgin police seeks help identifying armed robbery suspect

Reported by Elena Ferrarin, Daily Herald

Elgin police are asking the public for help in finding a suspect, whose sketch was released Tuesday, that is believed to have been involved in an armed robbery last month.

The robbery took place the evening of Nov. 28 in the area of Congdon and Logan avenues.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call Elgin Police.

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Investigating Elgin infant’s death could take weeks

Reported by Larissa Chinwah Daily Herald

Child welfare agents are investigating the death of a 9-month-old Elgin girl but say it could be weeks before they’re able to determine whether abuse charges should be considered.

The girl was found unresponsive at her home on the 700 block of Lyle Avenue in Elgin on Oct. 29 and was taken to Advocate Lutheran Hospital in Park Ridge, where she died about 4:45 p.m. Friday, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said Saturday.

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Cary: 8 arrested in mailed pot bust

Reported by Lenore T. Adkins Daily Herald

A narcotics probe in which someone mailed $13,600 worth of marijuana to a Cary address resulted in eight arrests Friday, police said.

According to police, the package originated in California and was delivered to a home in Cary.

They seized 2,159 grams of marijuana, $1,535 cash and drug paraphernalia, police said.

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Authorities bust indoor marijuana growing operation near Elgin

Reported by Harry Hitzeman Daily Herald

Authorities have busted an indoor marijuana growing operation near Elgin, seizing 77 plants worth a total of $154,000, according to police and court records.

Justin Brooks, 54 faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of felony production of between 50 and 200 marijuana plants, according to court records.

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Illinois Tollway officials award more than $26 million in contracts

As reported by Associated Press

Illinois Tollway officials have awarded more than $26 million in contracts for projects that widen Interstate 90 from Rockford to the Kennedy Expressway and create a western access to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

Projects include: roadway widening between Elgin and Rockford, roadway widening and resurfacing on the Elgin O’Hare Expressway, bridge reconstruction on the Elgin O’Hare Expressway and more.

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