Prosecutors allege Hurst’s DNA is on multiple items inside Wilson’s Sycamore home, including ‘crawl space’ in laundry room where Patricia Wilson’s body was found.

A year and a half after Republican Darren Bailey lost his campaign to challenge Gov. JB Pritzker, state election officials are weighing whether he illegally colluded with conservative radio show host and political operative Dan Proft in the 2022 campaign.

Because of intense demand, an additional fourth day has been added to the June administration of the primary Law School Admission Test.

“Prisons exist to punish and rehabilitate people — not to torture and destroy them,” says the report from the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, which found that hundreds of people are kept in solitary confinement at any one time across the state.

A judge denied pre-trial release for a former MTV star who prosecutors say tried meeting up with a child for sex and led police on a brief chase before going on the run for over a year.

The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

The appellate defenders for convicted murderer Tim Bliefnick have filed a brief in the Office of State Appellate Defender, Fourth District, arguing many mistakes were made in Bliefnick’s May 2023 trial while asking for a new trial.

The Park View man accused of the March murder of Taylor Escontrias was arraigned Thursday.

The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts announced that the Marshall/Putnam/Stark Probation District team was chosen as a 2024 Reaching Rural Fellow. The Reaching Rural Initiative brings together professionals from rural areas to address the persistent challenges of substance use in their communities.