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UPDATE 6:47 p.m. Thursday — Gurnee police were able to contact the subjects in the case. No word on any arrests or whether the incident was verified. Gurnee police alerted area police departments of an attempted child abduction about 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Wanted for investigation are two males that occupied a gold-light-colored sedan with an [...]

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Video of Gurnee Holiday Inn extra-alarm fire showing intense fire and smoke conditions. Video credit: Larry Shapiro/Shapiro Photography/shapirophotography.net. View Larger Map Google Street View of former Holiday Inn building. Gurnee Fire Department at about 7:35 p.m. Tuesday requested a fifth alarm for a fire at the former Holiday Inn building, 6161 Grand Avenue, just northwest [...]

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Gurnee police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 1:15 p.m. to the 7000 block of Grand Avenue near Anthony Buick GMC. One man was stabbed in the neck and killed. Another man was found outside of the vehicle, seriously wounded. A third man was injured in the hand by a sharp object. The man with the injured [...]

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U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force agents attempted to arrest Ronnie Nicholson at the Grand Oaks apartment complex at Grand Avenue and Oakwood Drive near Gurnee at 8:30 a.m., but the suspect managed to escape the perimeter and enter a partially wooded area near the apartment at Route 45 and Grand Avenue or Rollins [...]

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View Larger Map Google street view of fatal ATV crash in Gurnee, Illinois. Gurnee police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 2:00 p.m. Tuesday to Magnolia and Pacific Avenue for a report of a crash of an ATV into a utility pole. Police arrived first and found a bystander performing CPR on Terry E. Matthews, 30, of [...]

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UPDATE: CAPTURED WEDNESDAY NIGHT in Chain ‘O Lakes State Park in Spring Grove. An arrest warrant has been issued for Richard R. Gallatin, a paroled child molester who is currently accused in the abduction, robbery and sexual attack of a woman on June 5, 2010. The crime started as the victim was leaving Gurnee Mills. [...]

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Rashe Watkins, 33, and Julius Watkins, 29, two Waukegan brothers arrested on charges of armed robbery of National City Bank on Route 22 in Long Grove in October, and attempted robbery of a Gurnee credit union January 29. At the credit union robbery attempt, police arrived on the scene while the robbery was underway. A [...]

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An Arlington Heights police officer announced he was following a felony vehicle northbound Arlington Heights Road at Golf Road at about 7:55 p.m. Friday. Back-up police squads headed toward the area as the officer followed a black GMC van that continued northbound on Arlington Heights Road. The police made the stop on northbound Arlington Heights Road, just south of Fairview Street at about 8:00 p.m. The driver of the GMC van pulled over to the right and stopped when police emergency lights were activated.

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