A lawsuit has been filed against a Buffalo Grove man and owner of an ice cream shop who is accused of secretly recording children using the restroom in his shop and in his home, which attorneys called “atrocious.”

Rivera was fatally shot by her partner, Officer Carlos Baker, during a June 5 foot chase.

Dozens of Central Illinois firefighters filled the Champaign County Courthouse on Wednesday morning, sitting just feet away from the man police say stabbed and hurt three first responders last week in Champaign.

Gov. JB Pritzker believes this week's U.S. Supreme Court decision is allowing White House Border Czar Tom Homan and ICE to racially profile people in Chicago, but the Trump administration said they are committed to getting criminals off the street.

Beach will be Cook County’s first new chief judge in 24 years, after defeating eight-term incumbent Timothy Evans.

Tim Mapes, who for decades served as the right hand for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and the Illinois Democratic Party's executive director, has launched a legal fight with the state to reclaim his $154,000 per year pension, saying the state pension board wrongly stripped him of his pension after he was convicted of perjury for allegedly attempting to obstruct federal criminal proceedings against his former boss.

The McLean County Sheriff's department is fessing up to an error that allowed federal immigration agencies to search its database of Flock Safety license plate reading cameras for more than four months this year.

The Illinois Supreme Court will hear several cases this month regarding pretrial release. In Illinois v. Seymore, the top court could decide whether people can use good conduct credits to reduce pretrial jail sanctions.

Chicago police officers pointed their guns at individuals 4,209 times in 2024, an increase of nearly 44% since 2022, according to Chicago Police Department data shared with the federal judge overseeing the ongoing effort to reform the department.