The study pointed to Illinois as an example of a state where reformers successfully owned the issue of safety, without returning to “tough-on-crime” tactics. In 2021, Illinois state Sen. Robert Peters ...

A shooting on Interstate 90 led to a three-vehicle crash a little after midnight on Saturday morning in Chicago.

A Wisconsin man was charged with a hate crime for allegedly making a threatening comment on an Illinois LGBTQ+ organization's ...

Illinois bill would limit laws that evict tenants for too many 911 calls The Cook County suburb of Richton Park amended the ordinance that forced Diamond Jones out of her rental home, and housing ...

ILLINOIS (WTVO) — According to a new report, crime rates across Illinois have declined in the year following the implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act. According to the report from Loyola ...

The CEO of a company that builds tech for law enforcement spoke up about an alleged data grab in Illinois. Here's what he ...

Investigators said Miko Martin, a 29-year-old resident of St. Louis, was driving at high speeds, trying to evade police, when ...

They declared that crime would increase and Illinois would turn into a revolving door for career criminals, full of Gotham-like cities. One year later, we have evidence of how false those claims were.

But the Illinois Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights received overwhelming support from voters in a November 2014 referendum. Illinois became the country’s second Marsy’s Law state in 2015, when ...

Enacted in 1973 by the Illinois General Assembly, the Crime Victim Compensation Act was created to reduce the financial burden on victims of violent crime and their families.The expenses covered ...