Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday defended Illinois' sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants at a hearing before ...

The technology allows police agencies to read thousands of license plates per minute from images captured by cameras along ...

Illinois bucked those trends last year, with hate crime reports falling from 346 to 319, according to the FBI. But that dip followed a massive surge, from 56 in 2020 and 98 in 2021, to 346 in 2022.

Gun rights activists have asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn Illinois’ ban on assault-style weapons and ...

Ten years ago this month, Illinois voters approved the Illinois Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights. Informally called Marsy’s Law for Illinois, the amendment to the state’s constitution expanded ...

According to the FBI’s crime database, the increased number of incidents in Illinois follows a national trend that began following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. “We’re looking ...

Laws going into effect in January continue that trend with harsher sentencing ... Amendments to the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009 replace references to "offenders" with "justice-impacted ...

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), Illinois ranked fifth in the number ... To combat this trend, Shafer advised consumers to shop around and compare rates from different ...

Mary Norkol/Sun-Times Share The state of Illinois announced a new program aimed ... I’m horrified by this trend,” Pritzker said at a news conference Wednesday. “This nation, this state ...

In some Illinois cities, shoplifting, calling 911 too many times or even being a victim of a crime can get you kicked out of your home. By Sidnee King Pineda Photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis ...