Two years ago, Chicago voters dumped their unpopular incumbent mayor, Lori Lightfoot, a standard-issue Democratic progressive ...

Former NYPD inspector Paul Mauro outlines the legal distinction between a hate crime and a terrorist attack during an FBI ...

Police said Christopher Green of East Alton, Illinois, was found in the street with an “apparent gunshot wound” early Sunday ...

Legislation requiring all local Illinois law enforcement agencies - including those from Lake & McHenry counties - to ...

Arrests made in a decades-old Kenosha County murder case; Roxanna Collins and John Viskocil face homicide charges.

The Illinois House passed a bill Saturday to raise the minimum detainment age for minors from 10 to 13 years old.

Criminal justice reform advocates say legislation to seal criminal records for certain nonviolent crimes, which passed Friday ...

East Moline Police Sgt. William "Bill" Lind was one of 23 Illinois law enforcement officers to receive the Law Enforcement ...

We are all familiar with the chilling statistics that guns are the No. 1 cause of death for our children in the United States ...

AG Kwame Raoul hosts a symposium on tackling vehicle hijackings and thefts through public-private partnerships.

An Urbana man has been charged with a hate crime that occurred on the University of Illinois campus after a month of erratic ...

A 19-year-old has been taken into custody in Illinois and authorities said they plan to charge him in a shooting that hurt 11 people after a party boat cruise in South Carolina.