When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

But it’s the snarling, dead-eyed faces of the Democrats that’s their most pronounced problem. Who is their new leader? Who is ...

The Sangamon County Board approved the settlement on Tuesday, seven months after a deputy shot the unarmed woman in her home ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has downplayed any interest in running for president when asked by reporters but admitted last August he was ...

A federal jury Wednesday convicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the most powerful person in Illinois politics, of bribery conspiracy charges in a wide-ranging case alleging he ran his ...

Attorneys and former detainees are calling for the closure of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, alleging ...

Sontae Massey, a cousin to Sonya Massey, who was fatally shot in her home by a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy, said he was "disgusted" by the proceeding and left with his fiancée, Margaritta Fultz, ...

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Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the ...

Marcus Walker said the sexual abuse he experienced two decades ago as a teenager at an Illinois youth detention facility has ...

In courts of law and the court of public opinion, the civil servants who keep the government running are shaken but uncowed ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker appeared unamused Wednesday when a reporter asked him to comment on legislation filed by Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, that would begin the process of ...