The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

There will be passionate naysayers ready to pounce if a suspect is released and then charged with another crime — but that could happen even under a cash bail system

The act backed by the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday lays out new procedures for detaining someone that do not include cash bail.

Landmark criminal justice reform isn’t unconstitutional, should take effect in September, justices rule Tuesday.

Book bans are brewing as an issue that could energize voters — on the left and right — from local contests for library and school boards to the White House — heading into the 2024 election cycle.

Brandon Johnson’s election as mayor and Illinois’ enactment of liberalized social policies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker served as rallying points for the three-day Netroots Nation conference, the largest national gathering of progressives and a precursor to next year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

A successful effort could help offset the loss of other corporate headquarters jobs that have left our state.

Longtime U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel, the former leader of the Illinois State Police who went on to preside over the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the landmark Family Secrets mob trial, and many other of the area’s biggest cases, died Saturday night after a long illness,…

The federal judge also was a prosecutor in the Richard Speck case. Zagel died Saturday after a long illness.

It remains in effect statewide through Sunday night.