Each county in Illinois also has a sheriff. The sheriff is an elected position, and sheriffs serve a four-year term. Cook ...

At least one person is dead and several others are hurt following shootings across Chicago as of Saturday. The ages of the ...

An Indiana high school student has been accused of plotting a mass shooting at a school near Indianapolis on Valentine's Day, local police said Thursday.

The nearly $80 million verdict is the highest reported Illinois verdict for a police pursuit crash, according to the firm.

A Chicago man was charged with murder in connection with a fatal shooting last month in the Washington Park neighborhood.

Six people were shot in separate incidents between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning across Chicago.

A man from Illinois faces charges for vehicular hijacking and aggravated battery following his February 10 arrest by the ...

The woman, 29, was found Sunday morning in the 1800 block of East 79th Street, unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest ...

Duggan was provided three candidates to choose from, including current interim chief Todd Bettison and two other men who have ...

A former University of Connecticut basketball player has been arrested for allegedly murdering his mother in Florida, ...

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right? Or is its history darker?

News from around the Southland includes items from Richton Park, Park Forest, Olympia Fields, Tinley Park, Mount Greenwood ...