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 numbers were ...

Troopers have arrested a total of 572 people in 17 special operations since June 2023, according to a Belleville ...

The latest social media trend that has young people engaging in dangerous behavior just might wind up at your doorstep. That ...

Friday's train derailment resulted in a "significant hazardous materials spill," Mount Carmel Mayor Joe Judge told Newsweek.

The Illinois Crime Victims Compensation Fund has approved reimbursement for over $4,000 to the family of Mari Villar, who was severely injured in a hit-and-run two years ago, after WGN Investigates… ...

Gov. Pritzker also said there has been a similar drop in crime statewide "Shootings and homicides on our highways are down 60, 70, 80% depending on where you look — but certainly in the Chicago ...

Illinois crime victims or their survivors have been paid millions in dollars from a little-known state-run program that's supposed to help pay for expenses from the terrible aftermath of a violent ...

2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins joins Steve Dale to discuss the snap curfew veto and his beliefs on why Chicago residents and the Chicago Police Department could be the ones that lose. The alderman ...