Chicago, studies Chicago’s somewhat mixed-bag crime trend data with little question about what he feels needs to come next in ...

For the first six months of 2025, the Springfield Police Department saw nearly a 6% decrease in crimes against property and people from the previous year. Springfield Police Assistant Chief, Ryan ...

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 ...

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

The city of Chicago saw a historic drop in homicides in the first half of the year, a trend that has largely been mirrored nationwide. For a deeper look at the state of violent crime in the U.S ...

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… ...