A Beardstown man has been found unfit to stand trial after nearly a year in jail and multiple hearings. Andrew J. Wright, 42, of Beardstown was found unfit to stand trial in Cass County Circuit Court for attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, both Class X felonies, on Tuesday, July 22nd by visiting judge Kevin Tippey.

While the General Assembly is currently between sessions for the summer, there is still some action coming from Springfield, according to 84th District Democratic State Representative Stephanie Kifowit. Kifowit says Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1563 into law last week, which would speed up the eviction process on squatters.

Statewide arrests among 18- to 25-year-olds are comparatively high but trending downward, according to data presented at last Thursday’s quarterly meeting of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council [CJCC]. With one notable exception.

Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they'd encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store last week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online.

A landlord sentenced to decades in prison after he killed a Palestinian American boy and wounded his mother has died.

A bill filed in Illinois' House of Representatives would prohibit local, state, and federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks or neck gaiters, with the exception of medical-grade masks.

Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced last week that the Seventh Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Sierra Senor-Moore as associate judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

A judge in Illinois dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit Friday that sought to disrupt limits Chicago imposes on cooperation between federal immigration agents and local police. The lawsuit, filed in February, alleged that so-called sanctuary laws in the nation’s third-largest city “thwart” federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.