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Crime
10 months ago
Crime of the Week: Protect gifts, deliveries, property over the holidays

The holiday season can make for easy criminal targets.

FILE - Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha County courtroom, Jan. 9, 2025, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, file)
Crime
10 months ago
Wisconsin seeks to block Morgan Geyser’s conditional release after escape from group home

Geyser did not fight her extradition to Wisconsin in a Chicago court appearance Tuesday.

FILE - A Federal Patrol agent's badge is seen near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)
IL State News
10 months ago
Judge’s footnote on immigration agents using AI raises accuracy and privacy concerns

The judge noted factual discrepancies between the official narrative about those law enforcement responses and what body camera footage showed.

Springfield Fire Crews were on the scene Wednesday morning for a fire at the Sangamon Towers apartment complex.
Local
10 months ago
Budzinski intervenes in local housing dispute on behalf of low-income residents

Affordable housing advocates say this type of issue could become more common with proposed HUD cuts.

Deep Dish Pumpkin Pie
Holiday Guide
10 months ago
What happens when pumpkin pie meets deep-dish pizza?

For pumpkin pie, one state stood out: Illinois.

FILE - The Rev. Jesse Jackson listens to speakers at the Tabernacle Baptist Church during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
IL State News
10 months ago
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson leaves hospital after treatment for neurological disorder

A protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the two-time presidential candidate and internationally known founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition was hospitalized Nov. 14.

Agriculture
10 months ago
Deere: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

The results fell short of Wall Street expectations.

New, stringent Trump administration rules on federal funding to help provide residences for people without homes could cast them back out onto the street in Chicago and across Illinois. (Credt: Victor Hilitski/Illinois Answers Project file photo)
IL State News
10 months ago
New federal rules could put formerly unhoused people back out on the streets across Illinois

The Trump administration is dramatically cutting the money available to help pay for housing for people in need, including those with mental illness or disabilities.

Dusty -- Friends of Sangamon County Animal Control DOTW
Pet of the Week
10 months ago
Meet Dusty — Friends of SCACAC Dog of the Week

Dusty has been at the shelter since August! You want to take him home!