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CHAMPAIGN — Pending council approval next week, the city of Champaign has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a 16-year-old who claimed he was arrested with excessive force for $74,500. Tavion...

Former La Salle County State’s Attorney Brian Towne has filed a lawsuit in federal court against his predecessor and a list of current or past staffers, current or retired...

Brian Towne, former La Salle County state’s attorney, is suing successor Karen Donnelly and numerous others for bringing him up on charges in 2017 that were dismissed last summer.

In March 2019, Jacob Adejola pleaded guilty to aggravated driving with a revoked license and was ordered to spend 180 days in the Will County Jail.

Metra has been hit with a wrongful-death lawsuit that one Chicago attorney says should frighten all train commuters.

The longest-serving inmate in Illinois walked out of a southern Illinois prison Friday morning and continued to proclaim his innocence in the infamous killings of three women at Starved...

For nearly six decades, Chester Weger has lived his life in prison after confessing to the haunting 1960 Starved Rock State Park murders of three suburban Chicago women who...

When Chester Weger went to prison for the infamous 1960 Starved Rock State Park murders, he was a young, wiry backwoodsman with two small children and had accused detectives...