People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday ...

Anat Kimchi — killed in a random attack while visiting Chicago in 2021 — was studying criminal justice because she thought ...

The Education Department said states risk federal funding if they don’t end DEI programs the feds deem illegal. Illinois said ...

The 38-year-old man shot by police on Tuesday was allegedly holding hostages: a boy, 1, and relative, 35, according to ...

Concerns raised by Inspector General Deborah Witzburg over city lawyers' handling of two police torture lawsuits amount to ...

A former Evangelical Baptist archbishop in the small country of Georgia is behind the "Peace Cathedral," a Christian church, ...

A jury of five men and seven women saw secret FBI video and heard from a man who admitted bribing several local politicians ...

There are no resources,” Corneal Westbrooks says, recalling his struggles with his younger brother Jawaun, now in prison for fatally stabbing a Chase bank employee in 2021.

Mariana was in downtown Chicago on a layover when Bruce Diamond, a man with a decades-long history of mental illness and criminal convictions, threw a heavy birch bark log at her head.

A Chicago Sun-Times investigation into people with long-term, untreated mental illness who were accused of violence in downtown Chicago. The series explores the circumstances of the attacks, the ...

The Trump administration announced it would pause $790 million for the Evanston school amid civil rights investigations.

The proposed resolution would direct officials to reject job applicants who took part in the 2021 insurrection because “you ...