After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a ...

Geese sleep on the grounds outside of Taylorville Correctional Center in Christian County, Illinois Credit: Jason Matthews/Flickr via CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 This spring, the Illinois House is set to take ...

A Kane County judge has sentenced a Batavia man to prison for sexually assaulting a resident of Marklund Home in Geneva, who ...

Disability rights group Equip for Equality filed a motion Thursday for a preliminary injunction to immediately transfer the ...

Byron Frazier, 32, was convicted last year of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, armed violence, and armed ...

Illinois judges are required to consider a person's youth during sentencing, yet many people are serving life sentences ...

State representatives hope to create a more equitable system for incarcerated people with disabilities to have education and ...

A caregiver will spend the next 25 years in prison after he sexually assaulted and impregnated a severely disabled woman who ...

The family of an 11-year-old boy fatally stabbed by the ex-boyfriend of the child’s mother has sued the Illinois Prisoner ...

Twenty-eight-year-old Marcus Fair of Dolton, Illinois was sentenced, Wednesday, March 12, to more than 4 years in federal prison for the possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. The United ...

A local man received a federal prison sentence of 12 years for methamphetamine distribution and firearms offenses.

"These women had suffered and endured so much," 22-year-old filmmaker Emma Watts said. "They've been waiting so long for ...