With changes underway, here are some cases and issues to watch for in 2026: As Chicagoland was roiled this autumn by the ...

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...

Michael Baltimore avoided a trial later this month and was sentenced Thursday for gunning down Kendell Cook, a popular barber ...

On Thursday, Michael Baltimore, 47, appeared before a Cumberland County judge and admitted that on May 22, 2021, he shot and killed Kendell Jerome Cook in the GQ Barbershop in Carlisle.

"Our lives are not defined by the errors we make," Cardinal Blase Cupich said. He and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition offered Christian religious services Thursday, spreading messages of positivity at the ...

A late-night traffic stop in Homan Square that erupted into gunfire is now costing a Chicago man what amounts to the rest of ...

Sandra Kolalou, who in 2024 was sentenced to 58 years in prison for the gruesome murder of 69-year-old organist Frances ...

The nation’s longest-serving legislative speaker, a state senator and a former Cook County commissioner were on Illinois’ too-long list of corrupt politicians.

Earcy Tucker is retiring from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office a decade after the sheriff's office helped build him a ...

Charles Gozzola, who went to prison for killing his wife in 2000 and was convicted last year of domestic violence, was denied ...

Happy New Year! With the calendar turning to 2026, roughly 300 new state laws have been ushered in, statutes that will ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has frozen access to about $10 billion in federal child care and family ...