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Friday's train derailment resulted in a "significant hazardous materials spill," Mount Carmel Mayor Joe Judge told Newsweek.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has joined a group of nine governors around the country calling on a power grid operator to implement ...
Data: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via UC Berkeley; Note: Arrests were counted even if they did not lead to detainment; Multiple arrests of the same individual were counted separately; ...
A violent Independence Day weekend has Chicagoans worried about violent crime, but it was a spike and not a trend. Crime is ...
A review of the 2024 fatalities captured by Ride Illinois revealed age and gender aligned with national trends, plus one notable contrast regarding time of day in the NHTSA report.
Criminal justice laws going into effect in the New Year show a mix of reform and harsher sentences. See new laws in Colorado, California, more states.
In some Illinois cities, shoplifting, calling 911 too many times or even being a victim of a crime can get you kicked out of your home.
Ten years ago, Illinois became the second state in the U.S. to approve a constitutional amendment that expands rights for violent crime victims.
An Illinois Senate committee this week advanced a measure that would limit the circumstances under which ‘Crime Free Housing’ ordinances can be used to evict tenants.
The disturbing trend hit Deerfield early Friday, with burglars breaking into nine businesses before dawn. All nine businesses were in the downtown area and Lake Cook corridor.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Serious crime in Illinois fell again last year, but murders rose unexpectedly and violent crime was more of a problem in rural parts of the state, new state data shows ...
Next week marks one year since Illinois outlawed cash bail, and advocates and critics of the change have been waiting patiently to see it if has been successful — or as some predicted, a disaster.