Cook County is putting more resources behind the Public Defender Immigration Unit, doubling its small staff at the start of 2026 and setting the goal of tripling it by 2027. Since 2021, the unit has ...

Four police officers were hurt Friday during protests at the ICE facility in Broadview. Two Broadview officers and a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer were transported to a local hospital for ...

Rockford’s Finance and Personnel Committee has approved the city’s 2026 budget, maintaining property tax levels and lowering the general fund by $2 million from last year. Despite a state-mandated $5 ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has announced the implementation of Expedited Felony Review, an expansion of a pilot program that allows Chicago police officers to directly file ...

The Illinois State Police will be conducting Nighttime Enforcement patrols throughout November in Peoria, Tazewell and Knox counties. NITE patrols allow the ISP to focus on preventing, detecting and ...

A Bellville attorney who defrauded more than 40 clients out of more than $1 million has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison. Jason Caraway, 51, whose victims included the children of a dead ...

Next fall, they may finally succeed. For the last three election cycles Amy Grant, who in 2018 won the House seat Jeanne Ives vacated to run against Bruce Rauner for the Republican nomination for ...

Officials at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva are expressing relief that the government shutdown has ended and funding for the essential SNAP food assistance program is secured for the next ...

Our Lady of Africa Parish will conduct its first health and wellness fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The fair will include blood pressure screenings taken by medical students from Northwestern ...

Damages totaling in the billions of dollars from severe storms has been on the rise in recent decades, driven by changing weather patterns and shifting geographical populations. To study changes and ...

The Generations will perform Saturday at Durty Nellie’s in Palatine to benefit Easterseals Autism Services. Saturday’s show marks the band’s return to the venue where members celebrated the release of ...

adjunct instructor of early childhood education at Morton College. Prior to her current roles, Ramirez worked as senior regional program director of youth development with the YMCA of Metropolitan ...