Police around the country warn of a new crime trend called "jugging." Criminals will watch banks and ATMs, waiting for ...

The department implemented a range of recommendations meant to improve its homicide investigations, but with no obvious ...

A bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker's signature marked a rare instance in which Democrats and Republicans largely agreed on a ...

Illinois is investigating Texas police's use of ALPR data to find a woman. It is unclear whether the search was immigration- ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday defended Illinois' sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants at a hearing before ...

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 ...

The blitz, led by the Cook County, Illinois, regional organized crime task force, involved more than 100 jurisdictions and over 30 retailers, including Home Depot, Macy’s and Target.

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 ...