The crime numbers are shaping up to be the story of the summer in the city. Through this past weekend, homicides are down 30% from the same time period last year in Chicago.

MADISON, Ill. — Investigators have activated the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis after first responders found a man's body in an Illinois intersection.

On Feb. 5, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a relatively terse 23-page complaint accusing the combined governments and officials of violating the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit alleged the "so-called" sanctuary policies at issue provide non-citizens "safe havens from federal law enforcement detection."

Joseph Czuba, the Will County landlord who was convicted of murdering 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and attacking his mother in a 2023 hate crime, has died.