Nationwide, the Trump administration slashed funding to AmeriCorps grants by $184 million, prompting a preliminary injunction by a court in June and a joint lawsuit by officials in 23 states, including Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

A Central Illinois teacher from Bloomington has died after his pretrial release on felony charges stemming from an Illinois State Police human trafficking investigation.

The Trump administration has secured Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County for use by ICE as the feds say they are ramping up immigration enforcement in the Chicago area this week.

For more than 17 years, one of the FBI’s “Most Wanted” fugitives was hiding out in Mexico.

Most legal cannabis in Illinois is grown without the sun, wind, rain, or even, in some cases, soil.

Critics are raising questions about the constitutionality and wisdom of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to pressure states to require cash bail for defendants charged with a variety of crimes.

A former Chicago attorney convicted by a jury last year has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for committing tax fraud, attempting to tamper with a witness and violating a court order, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois announced.

A new Illinois law could reduce discrimination in the life insurance industry. The law will ban insurance companies from limiting or denying life insurance coverage based on a criminal record.

A new Illinois law will create a task force to analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted chronic absence of students.