Three Chicago women worked together on Christmas Eve to steal more than $2,000 in clothing from a Macy’s store in south suburban Orland Park, according to Cook County prosecutors.

Yue Huang, 34, Shunai Li, 55, and Caichang Li, 57, were each charged with retail theft for stealing 45 items of clothing from Macy’s totaling $2,055, prosecutors alleged in court Thursday.

Each woman “passed all points of purchase without making attempt to pay for items” at the Macy's at Orland Square Mall, 1 Orland Square Drive, in the south suburb, prosecutors said.

Officers were called to the store about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

Prosecutors and police reports did not detail what types of clothing were stolen.

The women were caught on video surveillance, prosecutors said.

The women were each ordered held on $25,000 bond. Huang and Caichang Li, who both live in the 4000 block of South Richmond Street, were still in the County Jail on Thursday evening, while Shunain Li, of the 4300 block of South...

Police officers responded to a theft last week at the Apple Store, 120 W. Jefferson Ave., in downtown Naperville.

An Apple employee called police at 11:42 a.m. Dec. 18 to report that four men entered the store, grabbed more than $10,000 of merchandise and fled without paying for the items.

“The complainant reported that four black males, about 20 years of age, entered the store and removed 13 iPhone 6 (models) and one iPad mini and then ran out the front door,” said Sgt. William Davis of the Naperville Police Department.

Davis said, according to a witness, the four men got into a silver vehicle, possibly an Audi or Saab. The vehicle and subjects were not located by officers.

Video from the scene is being reviewed and the case is currently under investigation. Anyone with further information is requested to contact the police department investigations section at 630-420-6726 or Naperville Crime stoppers at 630-420-6006.

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A Willowbrook man with a history of domestic violence against his girlfriend was ordered held in lieu on $2 million bail Friday after he was charged with her murder.

DuPage County prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges against Dean Norris, 59, who allegedly strangled Vanessa Cross, 45, to death at their apartment in the 16W500 block of Honeysuckle Rose.

Authorities say Norris choked Cross to death in the early morning hours Wednesday after they argued.

He then called his adult son and confessed killing Cross, Assistant State's Atty. Cathy DeLaMar told Judge Robert Miller at a Friday afternoon bond hearing. Norris also called his mother and told her he had hurt Cross, the prosecutor said.

Apartment security was called to make a well-being check and found Cross' body on the living room floor, prosecutors said. A DuPage County sheriff's deputy apprehended Norris as he allegedly tried to run from the apartment building, and Norris reportedly told the officer, "I killed her,"...

Two Joliet residents — one of them a high school student — are each being held on $1 million bail in connection with a fatal shooting Sunday, authorities said.

Davia Mayes, 21, and Demond Fuqua, 16, each are charged with two counts of murder and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm. Fuqua, who was arrested Thursday at Joliet Central High School, will be tried as an adult, police and prosecutors said.

Will County prosecutors Friday said the men are responsible for the death of Terion Steward, 31, who was walking on McDonough Street near Joliet Street when he was shot. Steward's 15-year-old brother also was shot in the foot.

Al Roechner, Joliet's deputy police chief, said Steward's brother told police the two were walking when a dark vehicle drove by and a person in the rear passenger side began shooting at them.

Detectives were able to find the vehicle, registered to Mayes' mother, on Wednesday, Roechner said. Mayes was questioned by police, who developed other information...

The Chicago Tribune Media Group's Aurora Beacon-News reports : An off-duty Aurora firefighter has been charged with battery for allegedly punching a female bartender in the face after she told him to snuff out his cigarette.

Daniel Ahasic, 43, is facing a misdemeanor battery charge following the early Monday morning incident at Stoney’s bar, 1000 Ridgeway Avenue in an unincorporated area of Kane County near Aurora.

“He evidently didn’t like that she asked him to put the cigarette out, and then turned around and knocked her out,” said bartender Ricky Kauski, who said he witnessed the entire event. “It was the craziest thing I’ve seen in my life.”

The victim was taken by friends to an Aurora hospital where she was treated for facial injuries.

Kane County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Patrick Gengler said on-duty deputies were patrolling the area around 1 a.m. when they saw two people running from the bar.

Deputies stopped to see what had the men leaving in such a hurry. Kauski and others at...

Three teenagers were arrested Friday in connection with a string of home break-ins in Arlington Heights.

Marlvin Hill, 18, has been charged with two counts of residential burglary, Arlington Heights Police Commander Nathan Hayes said in a release. Two juveniles, both 16 years old, also have been charged with residential burglary, Hayes said.

The burglaries all took place in the area of Lake Cook Road and Wilke Road in the northwest suburb over the past two months, Hayes said. The suspects are accused of entering homes through unlocked sliding glass doors of apartments and single-family homes to steal electronics and jewelry, according to Hayes.

The teens are suspected in at least nine home burglaries and four attempted home burglaries, Hayes said. The investigation is ongoing.

Police recovered most of the stolen items and are returning them to their owners.

Bond for Hill was set at $30,000. Hill, of the 4000 block of Bonhill Drive, is scheduled to return to court Jan. 13.