Five Mississippi men have been fined thousands and sentenced to years of probation after they used illegal hunting methods to poach deer in five southern Illinois counties, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.

Gov. JB Pritzker is asking state lawmakers for more authority to regulate the homeowners insurance market in Illinois.

Lawyers hired by the Chicago Housing Authority recently cited Illinois Supreme Court case Mack v. Anderson in an effort to persuade a judge to reconsider a jury’s $24 million verdict against the agency in a case involving the alleged poisoning of two children by lead paint in CHA-owned property. The problem? The case doesn’t exist.

A Lake in the Hills man who pleaded guilty in 2022 to defrauding the state out of more than $3 million in sales tax revenue from a group of Denny’s restaurants he owned is seeking to have his conviction sealed.

Illinois state officials, the city of Chicago and Cook County's sheriff have all asked a federal judge to toss a lawsuit brought by the mother of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins, who was killed in an attack by his mother's ex-boyfriend, as they argue they cannot be held legally responsible for releasing the accused murderer from prison early or doing enough to protect the woman and her children.

The number of former juvenile inmates who allege they were sexually abused at the hands of staff at juvenile detention facilities across Illinois has grown to more than 900, according to their attorneys.

President Donald Trump's pick to oversee federal criminal prosecutions in Chicago was put in place on an interim basis. Now that job could become permanent.

The name Aaron Rossi is notorious in Greater Peoria since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Initially, his laboratory work was his focus, but that quickly took a 180-degree turn.

A woman got into an argument with her girlfriend, killed her and staged her death as a suicide, Illinois prosecutors said.