arson

The Peoria Fire Department is reporting four arsons over a four-day period. Two car and two house fires since Saturday are being investigated, after it…

A Peoria man, with a nearly decade long criminal history of violence against women and children, is being charged in the murder of his girlfriend.…

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with starting a fire that caused heavy damage to a building at an abandoned prison in northern Illinois. Joliet police…

Authorities have charged a suburban man with arson after he allegedly started a fire at a hospital on Chicago's South Side. 23-year-old Marcus L. Allen of…

Authorities say the house where a toddler was found dead has burned to the ground one day after her funeral. East Joliet Fire Chief Robert Scholtes says…

Eight maximum security inmates at Cook County Jail in Chicago have been charged with aggravated arson after they allegedly set fire to their uniforms last…

Peoria's fire chief says five arsons over about 24 hours have destroyed vacant buildings within a half-mile of one another on the city's south side.Chief…

A group of fires in South Peoria are being investigated as arson. Peoria Fire Chief Chuck Lauss says five of the six fires in the last three days were set…

Cook County prosecutors say a man charged with murder in a Chicago apartment building fire that killed three children and an adult was angered over a deal…

Fire officials in Peoria now say they believe a blaze at the abandoned historic downtown Madison Theater was caused by arson.Brad Pierson is a fire…