Bishop Thomas Paprocki is telling priests in his diocese not to offer sacraments to people in same-sex marriages. A Catholic LGBT group calls the decree "mean-spirited and unchristian in the extreme."

The FBI says the search for a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the University of Illinois is a national priority for the agency.

Repeat gun offenders in Illinois will face longer prison sentences under a bill Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law on Friday that aims to curb gun violence in Chicago, which has long struggled with street shootings and violent crime.

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James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois arrived in a D.C. suburb several months ago and lived out of his van next to a small local baseball field, which had recently been reported as the site of Republican congressional baseball practice. He took pictures of this otherwise unremarkable locale, and showed up there last Wednesday with two guns and a list of six elected Republicans on his person. He verified with a member of Congress that they were indeed Republicans on the field before opening fire, attempting to murder a bunch of them.

The FBI says the search for a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the University of Illinois is a national priority for the agency. Jon Holloway, assistant special agent in charge of criminal investigation at the Springfield FBI office, discussed the FBI's efforts Thursday night at a campus meeting...

The FBI says the search for a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the University of Illinois is a national priority for the agency.

An Illinois man convicted of abducting his estranged girlfriend from Kentucky and killing her along an Ohio interstate has been sentenced to receive the death penalty.

An Illinois man has been charged after posting online several times that he wants to assassinate President Donald Trump.

The courtrooms of Madison County — and Cook County, for that matter — may lose their allure as "litigation tourism" destinations after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that will make it harder to bring out-of-state mass actions to Illinois and other favorable jurisdictions.
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University of Illinois police representatives and a campus counseling center will meet with students to discuss the search for a visiting scholar from China.