Immigration enforcement officials have arrested almost 550 people as part of an operation in the Chicago area that launched a little less than two weeks ago, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.

The school district told the U.S. Department of Education it should be given more time and due process before a federal grant is withheld.

The parents of a boy who died and a boy who was seriously injured in a Monroe County crash last September have filed lawsuits seeking wrongful death damages and payment for medical bills.

A man convicted of killing a child is facing charges that he didn’t tell police that he had changed jobs and moved near a day care center.

A federal magistrate judge insisted Thursday that a man caught up in President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign in Elgin this week poses “no danger to the community that I see … whatsoever” as she considered whether to keep him behind bars.

The Will County Sheriff’s Office is refusing to release police reports regarding an investigation of theft at a nonprofit organization despite a request for their disclosure by the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.

Navigating the school system can be overwhelming for many Rockford families. That’s why the City of Rockford’s Violence Prevention Coordinating Council partnered with Illinois Legal Aid Online or ILAO to host a free community training.

A newspaper publisher in central and southern Illinois has sold its papers to a Kentucky-based company, testing a new state law designed to keep newspaper ownership local.