Research presented to the county's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council indicate young adults are a critical population in ...

Illinois had 15.6 incidents per 1,000 people while the rest of the nation had 19.6 incidents per 1,000 people. Illinois’ trend of increasing violent crime and decreasing property crime has been ...

While this might cause concern for some residents, they can rest easy in the fact that Illinois’ property crime rate was several points below the rest of the country. Illinois had 15.6 incidents per 1 ...

On this episode of "Paris on Politics," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin expresses concern, stating there's something that smells very fishy about the Department of Justice's secretive meeting last week ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois State Police has official launched a new public website to view crime statistics in Illinois. The Crime in Illinois Online website is part of the Illinois ...

Last year there were over 11,000 hate crimes nationally – and 300 in Illinois. Of those, about half are race related, 20 percent are related to religion, and the rest are a mixture of motives.

Police throughout Illinois reported 467,372 violent and property crimes in 2006, a 1.7 percent drop from the year before and part of a multiyear trend of declining offenses.

California to allow harsher penalties by 'smash-and-grab' law, Prop. 36, going into effect Retailers across the country have raised alarm bells about losing inventory due to organized crime over ...

SPRINGFIELD — Republicans will make a tough-on-crime agenda the focus of their 2022 campaigns, Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin said Thursday. Durkin, R-Western Springs, joined three ...