Police Department Media Release

Media Release September 18, 2017 Antioch, IL- On September 14, 2017, an off-duty Antioch Police Officer was returning to Antioch from training while driving a police vehicle. Around 5:00pm he noticed that a silver vehicle appeared to be following him. The driver of the vehicle, later identified as 68 year old David L. Larsen, of…

Police Department Media Release

On Sunday evening shortly before 8:00pm, Antioch Police responded to a single vehicle motorcycle crash at the intersection of North Avenue and Nelson Road, which resulted in the death of 57 year old man from unincorporated Antioch. The preliminary investigation shows the motorcycle was traveling southbound on Nelson Road, and for reasons not yet determined,…

History of Antioch – Part 2

The Town of Antioch It’s First Hundred Years 1837 – 1937 By: Roberta Selter Knirsch Published by the Trustees of the Antioch Township Library in observance of The Town Sesquicentennial 1987 Part Two. In February 1838, Thomas Warner returned, bringing with him his wife and at least seven of his ten children. They, too, moved…