Between about 10 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Saturday, there were at least 10 shootings in several West and South Side ...

Major shakeups are coming to Illinois politics in the next two years. Behind closed doors, Cook County Democrats Friday voted ...

Two members of the Illinois State University Police Department rode 390 miles to honor fallen officers, starting in Champaign and ending in Chicago, in order to pay respects to those who lost ...

The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims it would be an invasion of privacy.

In the chaotic moments following the fatal shooting of Chicago police Officer Andrés Vásquez Lasso, the alleged shooter yelled to responding officers, according to body camera footage: “Kill ...

Burnett and the divine right to bequeath your political office to your progeny” (July 13) overlooks important facts about the ...

After the convictions of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and former Ald. Ed Burke, Chicago politics are falling ...

St. Charles leaders’ choice for a new top cop will come to the city with more than 30 years of law enforcement experience, ...

A 1-year-old boy died in Lake Michigan Friday night, and a woman who allegedly drowned him was taken into custody, police ...

Hemp has become the subject of heated debate in Illinois and other states as the plant has been increasingly used to create synthetic products with intoxicating compounds that are not regulated by the ...

The ABC7 I-Team has learned Governor JB Pritzker will a bill into Illinois law that would make it easier for police to remove squatters from someone's home, bypassing the months-long eviction process.

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers. That's according to attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits ...