A Black jail inmate who was slammed into bunkbeds, thrown facedown and then dragged backward across the concrete floor by a rope clipped to his handcuffed ...

In the farm town where Cooper DeJean drew up football plays in elementary school and taught classmates to run them at recess, ...

President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the ...

Jan. 20 is a federally observed holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Over the weekend, communities across Chicago will host events and service opportunities to honor the ...

Republicans are considering the proposal after roughly a third of counties in the Prairie state voted to break away ...

Democrats currently control two-thirds of all seats in the Illinois General Assembly — 78 of 118 in the House and 40 of 59 in ...

John "Jake" Ehlinger, who was charged in the beating, pleaded guilty Monday to attempted assault. He faces 5 to 15 years in ...

Indiana has looked at adding 33 counties from Illinois that signaled they want to leave the state - which could lead to whole new maps of the ... separating from Cook County to form a new state ...

Communities in Madison County are on the southern end of an ice storm expected to hit Illinois. Fog and thunderstorms are ...