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Six Flags Great America is supposed to be a happy place for families. However, on Friday it seems the heat may have brought out the worst in a group as arrests were made after a fight broke out.

Police in an Illinois suburb, about an hour and a half from Rockford, arrested the nation's worst DUI offender Monday night.

According to My Stateline, two people have been arrested for having sex at Belvidere Park.

With all the transportation alternatives waiting for the person who's had too much too drink, it's somewhat surprising that people go ahead and roll the dice with impaired driving. Nonetheless, they do--and Rockford Police are arresting them for it more than any other municipal police department in Illinois.

"Don't drink and drive" are four words that you've probably heard a million times, yet despite all the warnings, lots of people still do it. And, here in Rockford, they're getting arrested for it more than almost anywhere in the state of Illinois.

Four Rockford residents are in police custody following a search of a home of the city's southeast side. According to a press release, members of the Rockford Police Department began an investigation after receiving complaints about a home at 2520 Wisconsin Road...

Additional arrests now have been made in the wake of a string of recent carjackings in Rockford. According to a press release, the Rockford Police Department and the Northern Illinois Auto Theft Task Force interviewed ten juveniles and one adult yesterday about the crimes...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Two men have been arrested and another two indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a Rockford warehouse fire in January. The U.S. Department of Justice says 51-year-old George Bacus of Niles and 37-year-old Jeremiah Clement of Des Plaines, were arrested and charged with conspiring to manufacture, possess and distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials say they have arrested at least 10 Rockford-area gang members on gun- and narcotics-related charges. Ten men were arrested Wednesday on charges including selling cocaine and conspiring to possess and sell stolen firearms...

For the seventh straight year the Rockford Police Department ranks first in the state in DUI arrests. That's according to an annual study by The Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists, which excludes Chicago from the list due to its size. Rockford officers compiled 556 arrests in 2013...