SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago ...

U.S. House Republicans grilled Democratic governors from New York, Illinois and Minnesota in a hearing on Thursday over state ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is in Washington, D.C., Thursday, testifying before Congress about Illinois' sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants.

The blitz, led by the Cook County, Illinois, regional organized crime task force, involved more than 100 jurisdictions and ...

There has been a political shift in many major metropolitan areas at the prosecutorial level that was demanded by the ...

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According to the FBI’s crime database, the increased number of incidents in Illinois follows a national trend that began following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. “We’re looking ...

The more-serious aggravated batteries increased 3.1% last year, the largest percentage increase for a violent crime category, for a total of 9,132. Black residents were 61% of the aggravated ...

Eleven teenage boys in Illinois have been charged with several ... One of the 17-year-olds is facing an additional two felony counts of a hate crime, according to the department.

That decline continued during the first full year after Illinois did away with cash ... to name direct causes for any short-term crime trend. Many factors are at play. But there is now a general ...

As we shift into 2025, states are enacting new legislation to tackle crime reduction and criminal justice policy, but not every law comes from the same school of thought. The pandemic brought a ...