Memorial Day weekend means boating season in Illinois is about to begin, so follow these safety reminders and laws from IDNR officials.
Controversy at youth facility in southern Illinois sparks a nonprofit to act on behalf of the teens who are getting harsher sentences.
Dixon High School Resource Officer Mark Dallas says he was just doing his job.
The 9mm semi-automatic rifle the 19-year-old brought to his former high school's graduation rehearsal was purchased by his mother in 2012.
VIDEO: Matt Milby's mother said her son was bullied and "his kindness kind of got taken for weakness" before Wednesday's school shooting.
"Countless lives were saved," officials said of veteran Officer Mark Dallas, who apprehended suspected shooter Matt Milby.
Two teens are charged in connection with shooting several of the birds to death at an Illinois wildlife area.
Five pelicans were found dead by state wildlife employees at Newton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area in Jasper County earlier this month.
The 16-year-old is accused of helping conceal her friend's mother's murder as her pal posted "I love you" to her dead mom on Facebook.
One of the suspects — an ex-Ford Co. deputy — is a convicted felon whose company wanted to build President Donald Trump's border wall.
Lawmakers, news outlets and high schoolers have their sights set on the AR-15. So we decided to take a wider look at gun violence.
Events on campus and online remember the five students lost in the Feb. 14, 2008 tragedy at Cole Hall.
Diamond Bradley was found stabbed to death in a ditch days after she was reported missing. A 26-year-old man is in custody.
Denita Hedden vanished on her birthday and has been missing for nearly two weeks.
The 16-year-old was found dead of multiple injuries, authorities said.
He was sentenced to 20 years after being recorded in jail offering $1K to capture the man trying him for the murder of his estranged wife.
Some states have incarceration rates more than four or fives times that of others. See how Illinois ranks.
Stores were shut down during the sweep early Wednesday.
The hotel, located near Starved Rock, remains open.
Friday is your last day to prepay taxes ahead of the new GOP plan, which caps tax deductions at $10,000.
Father Timothy Elkins received a six-year sentence after the baby died in "deplorable" conditions in the family's Illinois home.
Beth Bentley vanished on May 23, 2010 in southern Illinois.
The two men were working on a farm field when a natural gas pipeline exploded.
Several people were injured as the plane went down in high winds Monday night.
The 40-year-old was convicted this week of stealing the potentially deadly narcotic and leaving tampered vials to be used on patients.
A couple and their four children perished in the fire after their 17-year-old son called for help.
Yingying Zhang's father said the loss of his daughter has warped his sense of time: "Every day is like a year."
"(If only) we knew," said a note left for the little boy outside his southern Illinois home. "No kid deserves this."
Nicholas Sheley was tried in 2014 for the murders of four people in Illinois and Missouri.
A Southern Illinois father and stepmother are charged with first-degree murder.
Officer Jaimie Cox, 30, was killed while conducting a traffic stop on Sunday.
Jaimie Cox, 30, had been with the Rockford Police Department for less than a year.
A four-day FBI operation resulted in the rescue of 84 victims, including a 3-month-old baby.
The FBI released new law enforcement officer death and injury statistics for the year 2016.
More departments are deciding that video storage and editing costs are too high.
The boys were strangled and the father hanged himself Tuesday in Bloomington.
The southeastern Illinois high school was locked down and evacuated Wednesday.
Two-year-old Kane Friess-Wylie died of a head injury, according to the medical examiner.
The father, who lives in California, was involved in a custody dispute with a resident, police said.
The same database used to put criminals behind bars could help set an Illinois man free.