An Illinois woman is heading to prison for "intentionally" running over and killing her husband at a Dollar General, with ...

A 2024 law gives people in prison time off their sentences for work and education. But an internal report shows the prison ...

Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside ...

A new lawsuit alleges the Illinois Department of Corrections violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by leaving almost two dozen men with disabilities behind when it shut down Stateville ...

Incarcerated men say Illinois prison guards forced them into painful stress positions and forced them to rub their genitals ...

The 2025 local elections are the second time that Illinois Democrats are getting involved in nonpartisan races. After ...

A man from Silvis who pleaded guilty to charges of possession of child pornography in January has been sentenced. Robert ...

The federal government owes Illinois nearly $2 billion in funding, the governor and legislators say, as they look to D.C. for ...

Warren Montgomery, a 27-year-old formerly from Urbana, Illinois, pleaded guilty on February 26, 2025, to aggravated unlawful ...

A DeKalb man was sentenced to 12 ½ years in prison for a cannabis DUI crash that killed a 4-year-old girl and seriously ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office reported Melissa Howes pleaded guilty to First-Degree Murder and Aggravated DUI ...