A fire caused significant damage to a vacant apartment and left all four units of the building uninhabitable in Highland Park Thursday evening, fire officials said.

Prosecutors say a Mexican national who worked at a shopping center in Mundelein sexually assaulted a developmentally disabled woman in a vacant store while she was on her lunch break.

A SWAT team raided a home daycare in North Chicago and arrested a drug trafficker who was selling meth out of the residence where a gun was also found accessible to children.

Officers chased down an armed man who fled after he allegedly burglarized a coin store in Gurnee and stole over $10,000 in proceeds early Thursday morning, police said.

Jack in the Box, a fast-food chain known for its burgers and tacos, has announced it will open next month in Lake in the Hills amid the company's return to the Chicago area.

A suspect has been charged after authorities say he stole a car and led police on a pursuit in Wisconsin and then a second pursuit in Illinois before abandoning the car on I-90 in McHenry County.

Police say a woman was hospitalized after being seriously injured when she was ejected from an SUV that rolled over during a two-vehicle crash in Zion Wednesday morning.