A man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to aggravated driving under the influence resulting in the death of one person.

With J.B. Pritzker announcing he's seeking a third term as governor of Illinois, many are asking: How many terms can a ...

Good morning, Chicago. Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker this week set out to make history, launching his bid to become the first Illinois governor since the 1980s to be elected to more than two terms in ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an ...

The Illinois Attorney General's Office is representing the State Police, guardians of a DNA indexing system defense attorneys ...

Two cousins involved in what was described as a multistate drug pipeline are heading to federal prison after being caught ...

Illinois’ unemployment rate in May was 4.8%, higher than the national average of 4.2%. The Illinois Department of Employment ...

The brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing their parents. But on Tuesday, a judge in Los Angeles reduced their sentences to 50 years to life, ...

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said she would issue a stay on an order for more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to leave the country, sparing them until the case ...

With the passage of legislation in 2019 and 2023, Illinois banned life sentences without the possibility of parole for most youthful offenders under 21 at the age of their offenses. But these laws ...

The Illinois Supreme Court later decided that ruling applies retroactively, and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed it in 2016. Illinois is one of 28 states that has banned juvenile life sentences without ...