Illinois lawmakers were hoping to pass a bill to put more guardrails on homeschooling after cases of child abuse and neglect cases became public. But homeschool families and advocates pushed back ...

A Lee County judge has filed a written statement explaining his July 7 decision to allow the pretrial release of a Dixon man accused of disseminating images and videos of child sexual abuse. Heath A.

The Illinois Federation of Teachers, the parent union of the Chicago Teachers Union, should be worried about the three Rs, ...

The Topeka Police Department (TPD) addressed community concerns Thursday morning regarding recent crimes and killings in the ...

The article critiques the widespread use of private Lincoln hearings in custody cases, highlighting concerns over fairness, ...

ICE arrests from Jan. 20 through late June were of convicted criminals, down from 54% of the 51,000 arrests during the same ...

Squatters have been a persistent problem at a house in the 3100 block of Potomac, in the Gravois Park neighborhood.

Among the nearly 112,000 immigration arrests this year, 40% involved people with criminal convictions, compared to 53% under ...

A downtown Chicago building owned by the state has been renamed in honor of former Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White. Gov. JB Pritzker, other state leaders and community members gathered ...

Rollins-approved funding freezes and cancellations have squeezed small farmers and risked their trust as rural communities ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has filed a new lawsuit against New York City, escalating its ongoing campaign ...

Eviction bans during the pandemic didn’t just keep families in their homes. They may have kept children safer, too, according ...