The Latest Breaking News from Illinois State Police

“We have done this for Highland Park’s Kevin and Irina McCarthy, Jacquelyn Sundheim, Katherine Goldstein, Eduardo Uvaldo, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza and Stephen Straus. For Benito Juarez High School’s Brandon Perez and Nathan Billegas, just 15 and 14.”

The Illinois Senate voted 34-20 to approve the measure, which now must go back to the Illinois House for concurrence. Earlier, lawmakers heard audio that began with a high-pitched cry from a child at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade. “What is happening?” the child screams. “What is…

CHICAGO — Born 10 days before Columbine, 23-year-old Nabeela Syed’s opinion on guns in this country began forming in the third grade.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the 26-year-old fell from the overpass, Illinois State Police said.

The Nov. 8 crash killed Lauren Wegner of Clayton, North Carolina. Police say Shane Woods traveled northbound in his GMC Sierra into the southbound lanes of I-55. His Sierra then crashed into Wegner’s Mercury Sable and a Toyota Corolla driven by a Granite City man.

Illinois State Police say Scott Lennox left Republican Darren Bailey a voicemail threatening to “mutilate and kill” him. “This went above and beyond anything that is acceptable, even in the realms of political discourse,” Cook County Circuit Court Judge Susana Ortiz said. “It simply will not be…

Testimony in the case came from six Illinois Department of Corrections employees who admitted they lied to investigators. None has faced punishment, and they all continue to get regular pay increases.

Three former Illinois prison guards face life in prison for a beating that led to the death of inmate Larry Earvin in 2018

Chester Weger, who spent decades in prison for the killings, says he was framed and is asking Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow to vacate his conviction.