Illinois Crime

Chicago customs officers just stopped a massive haul of fake Cartier watches worth nearly 28 million dollars heading to California.

It turns out specialty cheese is the perfect target for shoplifters. Small enough to hide, expensive enough to matter, and always in demand.

Smash-and-grab robberies are getting expensive for Illinois businesses, so some shop owners are fighting back with a surprising weapon: thick fog.

One man's attempted break-in at a local restaurant ended with him trapped in a vent and facing police, thanks to a triggered alarm.

A man stole clothes from Macy's, cooked himself a meal in the store, and walked out. Then he came back wearing the same outfit weeks later.

Shoplifting in Illinois jumped from 23 percent to 30 percent in just two years, and the items people are taking say a lot about what's driving it.

A box of wine turned into a weapon in Joliet — and the story of how that happened is genuinely hard to believe.

Caught on the very cameras they were trying to steal in Illinois. You really can't make this stuff up.

Somewhere in Joliet, a would-be carjacker sat in a stolen pickup truck on a Friday morning, completely stumped by the gear shift.

Joliet police are on the hunt for a stolen dinosaur — and yes, that sentence is completely serious.