Police will no longer be able to use the smell of marijuana to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois ...

A trial over the constitutionality of Illinois’ ban on certain high-powered firearms ended this week after four days of ...

Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

While the bench trial for Illinois’ gun and magazine ban is over, the reverberations could impact a separate lawsuit against ...

After La Schiazza mistrial, all eyes turn to Madigan’s own trial on racketeering charges, which kicks off in less than three ...

According to a complex funding formula to be laid out in the bill, colleges and universities in the Prairie State would receive $6,000 for every black or American Indian student enrolled. Hispanics ...

A murder trial in the death of a Winfield nurse is scheduled to start Oct. 28. Raju Rawal, 67, of Merrillville, is charged with murder in the Feb. 23, 2023, death of Haley Losinski, 36. He appeared in ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice ...

In suburban Cook County, a large percentage of applicants have received permits even though Sheriff Tom Dart objected for ...

FBI agents boarded a vessel managed by the same company as the cargo ship that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key ...

A recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling tightening the rules around what constitutes bribery, and that may have played a role ...

One year after Illinois passed sweeping criminal justice reforms – and communities aren’t seeing the big spikes in crime ...