Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing ...

YEARS ESTIMATED ON TREE CUT SUNDAY The large American Elm tree in the southwest corner of the Barry County Court House lawn is gone. The controversial giant, fell to the chain saw Sunday by action of ...

On December 7, 1941, sixteen-year-old Turner Thompson, born July 3, 1925, was walking near the Doe Run section at the foot of ...

Another 107 people filed complaints Tuesday against the state for allegedly allowing rampant sexual abuse in Illinois ...

Attorneys on Wednesday announced that 107 additional names have been added to a class-action lawsuit alleging abuse in juvenile detention.

A new batch of complaints filed Tuesday include 107 new cases of alleged sexual abuse at Illinois Youth Centers and the Cook ...

A 21-year-old woman was sentenced in St. Louis County District Court in Hibbing for Second Degree Manslaughter in the overdose death of Isaiah Lamar Deegan. According to the St. Louis County ...

CHICAGO - A Des Plaines man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a cocaine charge in Kane County. Andrew M. Guca, 51, pleaded guilty in May to unlawful possession of a ...

Nearly 1,000 lawsuits were filed alleging sexual abuse by staffers at Illinois and Cook County juvenile detention centers.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - An investigation into three armed robberies in Rockford leads to the arrests of four siblings and ...

The number of former juvenile inmates who allege they were sexually abused at the hands of staff at juvenile detention facilities across Illinois has grown to more than 900, according to their ...

President Donald Trump is countering criticism of the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, trying to ...