Watch The Illinois Prison Population Explode Before Your Eyes
As of 2012, for every 100,000 Illinois residents, 381 of them were in prison.
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As of 2012, for every 100,000 Illinois residents, 381 of them were in prison.
Former Chicago Bulls player and coach Rick Brunson is denying charges that he sexually assaulted a masseuse at Lifetime Fitness in Vernon Hills.
Activist priest Fr. Michael Pfleger has planned another gun buyback program, but his latest effort to get guns off the streets has a twist.
A man shot and killed Thursday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood is the father of a 13-year-old boy fatally shot last week in East Garfield Park, authorities said.
Silence can be golden sometimes.
If you were to take a poll and ask baseball fans to name the most iconic Major League Baseball team, most would probably answer ... The New York Jews.
Suburbs west of O'Hare International Airport have placed a question on the November ballot, asking voters whether something needs to be done about the rise in jet noise.
The CEO of a small technology firm in the Loop was critically wounded Thursday morning, when a disgruntled executive shot him in the head and stomach at the company's office in the heart of the financial district. The gunman then took his own life.
Six aldermen want the City Council to encourage non-profits in Chicago to house and support migrant children who have fled violence in Central America and crossed the border into the U.S.
Professional stunt man Ethan Swanson took a flier off a rooftop in Chicago.
Alexander Hampton, who has a history of sexual offenses, pleaded guilty to attempted murder for choking and repeatedly stabbing a Wicker Park flower shop employee on Feb. 17, 2012.
A 19-year-old woman was jogging shortly after midnight Wednesday morning in the 6500 block of South Artesian Avenue, when a man wearing a black hoodie approached her, and flashed a handgun, police said. The man then forced her into a gangway, and sexually assaulted her.
Police were questioning the driver of a car that plowed into several parked cars and a CTA bus in the Edgewater neighborhood on Wednesday, killing a 71-year-old man who was putting groceries in his trunk.
The blast and resulting fire also damaged an above-ground swimming pool, burned some of the siding off the back of the house, and blasted a hole in the roof of a neighboring garage.
Refer to this visitor's guide to Yellowstone National Park - the world's first national park featuring more geysers than any other location in the world.
