Robert Johnson had been behind bars since he was a teenager. He was freed Thursday night after a jury overturned his murder ...

A Lansing, Illinois, man is charged in Indiana with fatally stabbing his roommate. Christopher R. Jordan, 37, is charged with murder in the Feb. 1 death of John Walker-Spencer, 33. Jordan was recently ...

Two former Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday were acquitted of multiple counts following an unusual criminal trial connected to a wrongful conviction case.

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

The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local ...

The Kankakee sheriff said he hopes a lawsuit by the Department of Justice over Illinois' sanctuary laws can resolve ongoing frustration in the law enforcement community.

The Department of Justice is suing Chicago, the state of Illinois and Cook County over sanctuary city policies. In the 23-page lawsuit just filed Thursday morning in Chicago, federal prosecutors argue ...

It specifically calls out Chicago's Welcoming City Ordinance and Illinois' TRUST Act ... custody of individuals being detained at the Cook County Jail. As recently as last week, we notified ...

The Trump Administration filed a lawsuit Thursday against Chicago, Cook County and Illinois over its sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from coordinating with federal immigration ...

"The Supremacy Clause prohibits Illinois, Chicago, Cook County, and their officials from ... examples of men who were released from local jail custody instead of being held for ICE pickup, who ...