Monday, May 11, 2026
The Illinois Senate advanced a plan Thursday that would ensure students who commit sexually violent crimes can be expelled from school.
A convicted fraudster was ordered held in custody Friday at the federal jail in downtown Chicago as he awaits extradition to New York to face charges that he bilked a Mexican billionaire out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Facial recognition technology helped Chicago police identify the man who murdered a street pastor who regularly rode CTA trains at night to offer homeless riders a place to sleep, prosecutors say.
With uncertainty surrounding press protections at the national level, the state of Illinois holds a strong reporter privilege statute.
A federal jury in the Central District of Illinois has awarded $3 million to the family of a man who died while incarcerated at Jacksonville Correctional Center, concluding that a prison doctor and a private medical contractor were negligent in failing to treat a life-threatening condition.