Some of the similarities in the cases brought against Sean “Diddy” Combs this week and Robert Sylvester Kelly several years ago are evident at a glance: Both are world famous, powerful and influential ...

A federal judge has ordered the owner and operator of four Chicago-area We Wash Hand Wash and Car Detail Centers, including ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice ...

A murder trial in the death of a Winfield nurse is scheduled to start Oct. 28. Raju Rawal, 67, of Merrillville, is charged with murder in the Feb. 23, 2023, death of Haley Losinski, 36. He appeared in ...

According to a complex funding formula to be laid out in the bill, colleges and universities in the Prairie State would receive $6,000 for every black or American Indian student enrolled. Hispanics ...

In suburban Cook County, a large percentage of applicants have received permits even though Sheriff Tom Dart objected for ...

One year after Illinois passed sweeping criminal justice reforms – and communities aren’t seeing the big spikes in crime ...

A St. Louis man faces charges for allegedly bringing cocaine into the Madison County Jail in July.

Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

A recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling tightening the rules around what constitutes bribery, and that may have played a role ...

The Illinois State Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the smell of burnt cannabis alone is not enough to support a warrantless search of a vehicle.

A trial over the constitutionality of Illinois’ ban on certain high-powered firearms ended this week after four days of ...