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.

Some of those arrested have violent criminal histories, including men convicted of murder and sexually abusing a child. Others were previously deported. But the full scale of the operation remains unclear.

Illinois will release a new round of federal funding to build electric vehicle charging stations after the Trump administration initially sought to withhold it. The state on Wednesday announced plans to release $18 million it received after successfully suing the Trump administration for withholding the funds that Congress had already allocated.