CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been charged with murder in a deadly New Year’s Day stabbing in Little Village. Freddy Diaz, 44, ...

A second Joliet man, Ryan Gooch, 19, has been arrested in connection with a shooting last month on Youngs Avenue. Gooch faces ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Judge Joseph Bugos convicted Reco Murry, 27, on Thursday morning of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm following a two-day bench trial.

A southwest suburban couple in their 60's and 70's admitted that they scaled a wall and squeezed through a broken window at ...

Ricochet Tacos is closing at a high-profile spot on the Old Lake County Courthouse Square in downtown Crown Point.

A Joliet man is behind bars after allegedly opening ... dog in the southwest suburbs last year was sentenced to one year in prison. A federal jury has convicted a Bolingbrook man who acted as ...

Route 66’s Centennial year adding to its legendary stature and the perfect time to explore one of the USA’s most iconic road ...

When I turned 16 during the summer after my sophomore year in high school, my parents were anxious for me to find a job. They ...

TOMS RIVER - In a case an assistant prosecutor described as "a plot of a horror movie,'' a judge Friday sentenced a 29-year-old Seaside Heights woman to 25 years in prison for aggravated ...