Wheaton

On the evening of May 13, 2017, John Flick went to the home he shared with his mother in Downers Grove and “repeatedly hit his mother about the head and face with a hatchet,” prosecutors said. His mother was 80 years old at the time.

Wheaton officers learned Robert Davidson had approached a woman near the Illinois Prairie Path and demanded sex, the state’s attorney’s office said. When she turned him down, Davidson allegedly dragged the woman into a wooded area by her hair and sexually assaulted her.

DuPafe County officials released Tuesday new information of the case of "Baby Hope," an unidentified infant whose body was found last summer in a wooded area near Wheaton.

One man and three juveniles were charged Monday with attempting to break into a house and then driving off in a stolen vehicle Sunday afternoon in west suburban Wheaton.

A Chicago substance abuse center said it will try again to find a location to open a small program in DuPage County after being turned down Tuesday by the Wheaton City Council.

WHEATON, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Wheaton Police say a child was impaled by a curb marker in a pile of snow Monday afternoon. Police say the incident happened at the Church of the Resurrection on Union Avenue just before 1 in the afternoon. A boy and his mother were there for a church function. "A...

The city of Wheaton’s Planning and Zoning board has received 1,100 pages of objections to the proposed 16-bed residential treatment center that will also offer out-patient care. Many of the objections are about the loss of property tax dollars, declining property values and concerns about safety at...