Michael Broadway, 51, died months before a judge ordered Stateville prison vacated. A new lawsuit aims to hold the state ...

An ex-inmate's family is suing Illinois, alleging his death could have been prevented.Michael Broadway, 51, was an inmate at ...

Michael Broadway's family claims staff at Stateville Correctional Center "watched Michael slowly perish while gasping for ...

Trump’s campaign promises included mass deportations of people in the country illegally, and his history includes rolling ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Stateville Correctional Center, a historic but dilapidated prison set to close and a replacement ...

It is the first concrete move the Illinois Department of Corrections has taken to begin the project since Gov. J.B. Pritzker ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the bill in August, and it will take effect July 1, 2025, for hotels with more than 50 rooms, NBC 5 Chicago reported. Smaller hotels have until Jan. 1, 2026, to comply ...

CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday added himself to the chorus of those calling on the new president of the Chicago Board of Education to resign. In a statement provided to WGN ...