Elgin PD’s Safe Together Police Academy starts in May. Applications are available for the Elgin Police Department’s Safe ...

Police say the car belonging to a missing Illinois woman that was found in a river earlier this week was located nearly three ...

The car belonging to Karen Schepers, who disappeared more than 40 years ago after a night out with co-workers, has been found in an Illinois river.

Elgin detectives were dubious when their chief suggested starting a true crime podcast to help find Karen Schepers. But it ...

No further investigation was conducted at that time. The Elgin Police Department was unaware of the fire department’s findings until this week. What they're saying Elgin Fire Chief Robb Cagann ...

which notified police about 3:30 a.m., according to a post on the Elgin Police Department’s Facebook page. “Detectives are actively investigating this incident and are attempting to ascertain ...

(Elgin Police Department) After initial leads dried up and no new information came in during the original investigation into Schepers’ disappearance, her case was moved to inactive. Over the decades, ...

Elgin will continue housing former residents of the Tent City homeless encampment at the Lexington Inn & Suites through the ...

The tipster called the Elgin Fire Department with the tip in 2022 but police did not find out about it until March 25, 2025. Chicago area officials have fished a vehicle out of a river containing ...

Elgin Police Chief Ana Lalley said Tuesday morning that a search of the river on Monday by the department and Chaos Divers, a group that uses sonar to search for people suspected missing in bodies ...

Elgin police are working to solve her case more than 40 years later after the department launched a cold case unit and podcast last year. Scheper's case is at the top of their list. The ...

As police were recovering the car with the missing woman's remains inside, a man told them of the 2022 search. The Elgin Fire Department found Karen Schepers’ car in the Fox River three years ...