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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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U.S. prosecutors say a suburban Chicago contractor should serve 13 years in prison and pay $450 million for setting a fire at a radar facility and…
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The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information in the case of an arson fire that destroyed 13 horse-drawn carriages on Chicago's North Side.The FBI…