A budget buffer: Pritzker directed state agencies to carve out 4 percent from their operating budgets and stash the savings ...

Auditor General Frank Mautino’s office reviewed payroll reports at Stateville and Dixon prisons and found employees used a ...

Abraham Lincoln’s connections to Ottawa were not limited to his 1858 debate with Stephen A. Douglas. He was also a staunch ...

A Derry, Westmoreland County, man has been sentenced to up to 10 years in a state correctional institution for drug trafficking. Indiana County Common Pleas President Judge Thomas M. Bianco sentenced ...

Joliet criminal defense lawyer Neil Patel was unsuccessful arguing that his client Andrew Planeta should be freed under the ...

Will County Judge Vincent Cornelius rendered Tuesday's decision following Elijah Watson's bench trial in March of 2024.

McLean County Unit 5 high school students will now have girls flag football and boys volleyball available to them for the 2026-27 school year.

William Bruce Hoke, age 77, a resident of the IL Veterans Home in Manteno, Ill. and formerly of Joliet, Ill., died ...

LINLCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s administration volunteered last month to turn over a state prison to the federal government to serve as America’s latest immigration detention center, state ...

A man who drew a pistol and fired a paintball gun into a restive crowd of protesters in downtown Portland will remain in state prison, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled, rejecting most of his appeal.

When Louisiana prison guards told a newly arrived Rastafarian inmate named Damon Landor that he was required to cut off the knee-length dreadlocks that he had been growing for decades as part of his ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused prison guards of beating up a man and leaving him to die in 2023, a lawyer said Tuesday. The medical examiner ...