Illinois authorities are investigating a "suspicious" fire that destroyed a local business belonging to a vocal critic of an ...

Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel people into commercial sex acts, labor or services ...

CHICAGO - George Ryan, the 39th governor of Illinois and a figure known both for scandal and for halting executions, died ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A statewide investigation by the Illinois Answers Project shows county jails are using restraint chairs on inmates at an alarming rate. While many jails say the chairs are a last ...

Their deaths remain under investigation by the Sangamon County Coroner, Illinois State Police and the Chatham Police Department, Coroner Jim Allmon said. Chatham is a village in central Illinois ...