The stunning downward spiral of Michael Madigan’s political career ended Friday with a 7½-year prison sentence and a $2.5 ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday announced the expansion of its Project Safe ...

A long-running federal anti-violence program will be expanding to downtown Chicago and mass transit for the first time this summer, enhancing the investigation and prosecution of gun crimes ...

The U.S. Justice Department program started in 2001 to try to secure stiffer prison sentences for gun offenders. Up to now in Chicago, it was concentrated in high-crime areas on the West and South ...

Federal prison officials declined to comment. So did a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago ... the Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown. Neither the alleged use of ...

Project Safe Neighborhoods, led by the U.S. Justice Department, has been in place since 2001 in seven West and South side ...

When the “No Kings” protest began on the Porter County Courthouse lawn in Valparaiso on Friday, two people began to argue ...

CHICAGO (AP ... the nation’s most restrictive prison in Colorado. He was first imprisoned in Illinois for a 1973 murder and convicted decades later in federal court for running a criminal ...

Members of the National Guard stood watch behind plastic shields, but did not appear to participate in the arrests Tuesday ...

As a newly minted special agent for the FBI in the early 2000s, Douglas DePodesta cut his teeth on a squad that went after Colombian and Mexican drug cartels that used the city as a hub for ...