When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has decided to delay work on a $1.2 billion project meant to prevent invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes out of concerns that the Trump ...

State Senator Rachel Ventura has introduced a series of criminal justice reform policies, including medication-assisted treatment programs and a canine unit to detect illegal drugs in prison mail.

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...

A former Joliet housing authority official and vocal supporter of former Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk was able to avoid prison ...

A suburban Illinois school district was forced to hold an emergency e-learning day after the catalytic converters were stolen from “over 80%” of its buses.

Lee Ragsdale advocated for the publication of a deportation guide for noncitizens navigating a reentry into the country they ...

A Joliet man who has tattoos that say "Killinois" and "Angel Of Death" has been serving life in prison for the 2020 murder of a 25-year-old man.

Guerrero was then taken to a fire pit located on Joliet Street, where prosecutors said he begged to be taken to the hospital ...

A woman who killed a West Chicago man, who was stabbed, strangled, beaten, set on fire and run over, has been sentenced to 40 ...

Fr. Carlos Martins, a Canadian priest, exorcist and co-host of The Exorcist Files podcast, pleaded not guilty Jan. 27 in an Illinois court to a misdemeanor charge of battery over an alleged incident ...