Fox Lake News

Independence Day is Saturday, and with it comes the pomp and circumstance of fireworks displays.

FOX LAKE – The Fox Waterway Agency has lifted the no-wake restriction on the lower Fox River, effective 10 a.m. today.

SPRING GROVE – A motorcyclist was airlifted to Lutheran General after crashing into a guardrail along a curve on Route 12 near Sunset Road.

Police are crediting a CrimeStoppers tip with cracking a two-state robbery spree that ended early Thursday with a handful of arrests near Spring Grove.

Five people believed responsible for more than 20 armed robberies in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin are in custody, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said Friday.

Lake County Sheriff officials will hold a press conference this morning to announce eight people have been arrested for approximately 21 armed robberies in northern Lake County and southern Wisconsin, officials said.

Officials from the National Weather Service have issued a heat advisory for the Chicago area, as temperatures are expected to cross into the 90s with humidity rising to make it feel more like 100 degrees.

The second of three men charged in connection with a beating at a Fox Lake party pleaded guilty Tuesday in Lake County Circuit Court.

FOX LAKE – Because of recent heavy rains causing high water levels, the Fox Waterway Agency has declared the Chain O' Lakes and upper Fox River no wake.

An Illinois appeals court has overturned the felony convictions of former Richmond police officer Brian Quilici.

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Ryan Hallett's successful verdict against former Richmond police officer Brian Quilici and his department marks the end of an ugly chapter in the history of McHenry County law enforcement.

The legal saga of former Richmond police officer Brian Quilici is almost over. But the lessons from this case for municipalities and police departments should not be forgotten.

A federal jury Monday ordered a former police officer and the McHenry County town he once served to pay $450,000 to a Wisconsin man he was accused of beating in an off-duty bar brawl.

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ROCKFORD – Brian Quilici said Tuesday that he had no remorse for kicking Ryan Hallett as he tried to subdue him in the parking lot of a Fox Lake bar.

RICHMOND – Police are looking for two male subjects who robbed a Richmond gas station at gunpoint Saturday night.

WOODSTOCK – The federal lawsuit that sparked a series of criminal charges against off-duty police officers who beat a handcuffed man outside a Fox Lake bar is set for trial Monday.

Fox Lake police are attempting to determine if a vacuum cleaner salesman arrested this week for burglary was also responsible for other incidents in the area.

The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency are urging private well owners in parts of Fox Lake to have their wells tested for dry-cleaning solvent contaminants.