A McLean County jury returned guilty verdicts Friday, convicting a man from Blue Island on three weapon charges.

The Macomb County Board of Commissioners has preliminarily overridden two vetoes by County Executive Mark Hackel over the board’s approval for the county prosecutor to hire outside counsel. The board ...

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward M. Burke's Burnham Committee gave the money to a fund for Justice Joy V. Cunningham days after ...

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an up-front and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.

F ormer Texas Longhorns and Washington Huskies wide receiver (although the latter stint was shortly lived) Johntay Cook has ...

An FBI task force arrested a Waukegan man charged with shooting at a vehicle, wounding a victim, during an expressway ...

A Country Club Hills man is behind bars after sheriff’s deputies searched his home and reportedly uncovered a stash of illegal firearms, drugs, and nearly $900 in cash.

Carlos Taylor is seeking a bench trial in front of Judge Steven Bieda of 37th District Court in Center Line, said his attorney, Marc Curtis.

Robert Taylor was convicted by a Macomb County jury in December 2010 of first-degree murder, carjacking, kidnapping, two counts of conspiracy and felony firearm possession for the Aug. 9, 2009, ...

Court records also indicate he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to commit murder-for-hire in the 2016 nonfatal shooting of another man in Detroit after he and two cohorts ...

With the four-month trial now in the rearview mirror, a juror from the Michael Madigan trial explained why they were able to convict the former speaker on some counts, but not others.

Embattled soil and water conservation district supervisor finds himself in hot water following election fraud charges.Edward Jones was charged with three felonies Monday. And that's in addition to lar ...