The crime numbers are shaping up to be the story of the summer in the city. Through this past weekend, homicides are down 30% from the same time period last year in Chicago.

Sharone Mitchell Jr., chief public defender in Illinois' Cook County, tells “Morning in America” that blaming cashless bail for crime rates is a “completely preposterous position.” He says that in the two years since Illinois eliminated cashless bail,

ICE agents arrested Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez in Chicago after he was released from custody despite being charged with concealing the decapitated body of missing woman Megan Bos.

MADISON, Ill. — Investigators have activated the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis after first responders found a man's body in an Illinois intersection.

What is Marsy’s Law? The Illinois Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights was modeled after the California Victims’ Bill of Rights, which was added to the California Constitution in 2008.The amendment ...

Illinois created a program to compensate crime victims. Nearly 50 years later, it’s failing. The state program that’s supposed to help ease the blow of being a crime victim largely isn’t ...

Illinois lawmakers early Saturday approved a $46.5 billion budget that includes $1.8 billion in largely temporary election-year tax relief and a $1 billion deposit into the state’s rainy day fund.