2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (443+ words) CHICAGO — Nearly three years ago, Illinois became the first state in the nation to fully abolish its cash bail system, an effort pushed by criminal justice reform advocates who argued that the ability for a person to post bond after…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (381+ words) (The Center Square) – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office says it is unacceptable that Cook County Judge John Lyke threatened to jail two deputies who raised security concerns over the judge’s decision to allow contact between a defendant charged with murder…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (247+ words) Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul last week filed a lawsuit against ABC Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric, Inc. (ABC) for its deceptive business practices that mislead consumers, most often senior citizens, to sign a contract for home repair work at inflated…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (358+ words) There is a specific kind of stupid that only happens with expensive cars. Nobody looks twice at a Corolla missing its plates. Park a six-figure Rolls-Royce outside an Italian place in the south suburbs with bare bumper brackets, and you…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (434+ words) (The Center Square) – President Donald Trump has repeated his call for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker or Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to call him for help after 41 people were shot and three were killed in the city last weekend. The president…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (265+ words) Aurora police are warning business owners to look out for five shoplifters involved in 139 crimes with some $60,000 in stolen merchandise. Four of the five shoplifters are wanted on active Aurora Police Department warrants, according to a news release Wednesday. APD…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (180+ words) by Dar Danielson | Aug 25, 2026 The Illinois State Police and the FBI say they have a new lead in the 34-year-old unsolved murder of an Iowa college student Twenty-one-year -old Tammy Zywicki was returning to Grinnell college from Lasalle, Illinois on…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago   (42+ words) The judge entered a protective order for the victim’s family against Aurora Police Department officer Matthew Neely on Monday, Aug. 17. The judge entered a protective order for the victim's family against Aurora Police Department officer Matthew Neely on Monday, Aug....

4+ week, 15+ hour ago   (131+ words) Aurora police were investigating a homicide on Sunday, after a man was found dead on a sidewalk in the city’s Dayton Triangle neighborhood, according to the department. Officers responded to reports of an unresponsive man lying on a sidewalk near…...