Illinois State University officials in Normal sent out an emergency alert of a report of shots fired at the Bone Student Center just before 8 p.m. on April 27.

On this episode of "Paris on Politics," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin expresses concern, stating there's something that smells very fishy about the Department of Justice's secretive meeting last week ...

With gun violence still a persistent problem despite recent drops in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pair of gun control ...

Joseph Czuba, who stabbed an innocent 6-year-old Palestinian boy 26 times, died in prison just months after his sentencing.

President Donald Trump is under pressure to release Justice Department files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, but he has shifted the focus ...

Research presented to the county's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council indicate young adults are a critical population in ...

President Donald Trump has claimed that cashless bail reforms have led to rising crime in U.S. cities. However, data has not ...

The holiday crime stats are a big improvement over 2024, when 100 people were shot and 19 were killed, and over 2023 when 73 were shot, 11 fatally. It’s been six years, in fact, since the ...

Gov. Pritzker testifies before House committee on Illinois sanctuary laws 02:22 Pritzker defends his record on handling violent crime in Illinois ...

Illinois U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Peoria, confronted Pritzker about the state’s population trends during the hearing. “People continue to flee Illinois,” LaHood said.

(The Center Square) – Illinois’ migration patterns were the subject of several lines of questioning for Gov. J.B. Pritzker during a U.S. House hearing on migrant sanctuary states.

A new study examining conflicting trends in official violent crime statistics reveals that the leading measure in England and Wales underestimates the level of violent crime—and the findings ...