There are new places to stay in Starved Rock this year – luxury treehouses. Starved Rock Treehouses opened this year, located ...

Starved Rock killer is dead, a week after losing bid to overturn 1961 conviction Chester Weger, 86, died Sunday in Missouri. He was freed from prison for good conduct in 2020 after spending more ...

DEER PARK TOWNSHIP, Ill. (WLS) -- A 14-year-old boy fell into a canyon at Starved Rock Thursday evening, fire officials said. The boy, from the Hinckley or Big Rock area, fell about 20 to 30 feet ...

Chester O. Weger, accused slayer of three Riverside, Ill., matrons, is shown during his trial at Ottawa, Ill. Jan. 30, 1961. (AP Photo/Charles Knoblock) John Williams ‘Starved Rock Killer’ Chester ...

There will be no new trial for the man known as the "Starved Rock Killer," convicted in the death of a woman in the Illinois state park in 1960.

OTTAWA — The 86-year-old man known as the Starved Rock killer won’t get a new trial. On Wednesday, Chester Weger lost his bid to have his conviction overturned in the bludgeoning death of one ...