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

Earl Abernathy found the 7-month-old abandoned in a car seat in front of a Near West Side church as temperatures soared into ...

Two members of the Illinois State University Police Department rode 390 miles to honor fallen officers, starting in Champaign ...

Randall Darlin comes to Evans from Northglenn, Illinois where he was also a deputy chief in four years with the ...

Campus police at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign stopped 1,093 Black women — the most of any of the 11 campus police departments in the analysis — from 2019 through 2023.

After the convictions of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and former Ald. Ed Burke, Chicago politics are falling under renewed scrutiny by those pushing for reform.

Campus police at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign stopped 1,093 Black women — the most of any of the 11 campus police departments in the analysis — from 2019 through 2023.

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Emir Thomas, 19, was arrested in Chicago by the U.S. Marshals. He’s been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery-discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, according to ...

Illinois legislators on Wednesday passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior at school, ending a practice that harmed students across the state.

"Nothing about them was materially different than the average American interstate traveler," their attorney said.