The Illinois State Police say funds will go to 21 departments to help with enforcement details to remove guns from those "who pose a danger to the public or themselves."

There is at least one fatality at an Illinois Route 50 accident Friday morning at the Kankakee and Will County line, police said.

The Lockport Police Department conducted a nearly monthlong traffic safety campaign aimed at curbing dangerous driving earlier this summer.

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office said Monday morning that Interstate 80 westbound is closed just before the Morris exit after two semis crashed into each other.

The Illinois State Police released data highlighting its efforts to combat vehicle hijacking and theft from April to June.

A recent change and agreement with the Lake in the Hills police union will allow officers to carry their own weapons on duty.

A Will County sheriff’s lieutenant who avoided charges over the fatal shooting of a hostage taker who surrendered to police has been fired following an internal investigation of the incident.

Throughout the rest of July, motorists can expect increased patrols looking for speeding, as well as other traffic violations.

The Illinois Tollway has launched 24-hour hot weather patrols to deploy additional crews to assist drivers stranded during the dangerously hot and humid conditions expected to continue through Friday

A registered sex offender from Joliet is accused of taking photos of juveniles with a key fob camera at a Walmart store in New Lenox, police said.

The Illinois State Police welcomed 95 new troopers from Cadet Class 150 at a graduation ceremony in Springfield, its largest class in the past 25 years

St. Charles’ likely new top cop will come to the city with more than 30 years of industry experience, including high-level management roles with the Illinois State Police, officials announced Friday.

An investigation was conducted by both the Oswego Police Department and the Illinois State Police which led to Alexia Telles being charged with first degree murder of Annissa Ellen-Williams.

A Joliet woman has been ordered to pay back $20,000 after she pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal COVID-19 pandemic relief program in 2021. 

Illinois State Police Troop 3 conducted Roadside Safety Checks in Cook, DuPage, Kane, and Will counties in the first week of July.

A Will County judge ordered a Bolingbrook sex offender charged with possession of child sex abuse materials to remain in jail after finding his pretrial release posed a danger to others.

Nearly 100 law enforcement personnel from across the state will bike to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb Saturday, their latest stop in an almost 400-mile bicycle journey across Illinois to honor their fallen comrades. Stops also in LaSalle, Kendall, Kane, DuPage counties

A Lee County judge decided Monday to allow the pretrial release of a Dixon man accused of disseminating images and videos of child sexual abuse.

The Illinois State Police issued a reminder for drivers to be careful on and around motorcycles as fatalities increase over the summer months.

A Sterling man is accused of aggravated robbery and burglary in connection with a reported bank robbery Saturday, July 5, in Morrison.

Heath A. Knipple, 46, was charged in Lee County Circuit Court with six counts of Class X felony dissemination of child pornography with each listing that the victim was younger than 13

A woman was killed in a crash at the intersection of Grove Road and Illinois Route 126 in Na-Au-Say Township Tuesday afternoon.

Illinois State Police have announced an increase in traffic safety checks throughout northern Illinois counties for the month of July.

A missing person search launched Tuesday evening ended Wednesday with the discovery of a body north of Streator.

Sycamore 2-year-old Oliver Olinger and his family got a police escort in style, joined by more than 100 motorcyclists, to the St. Charles Motorcycle Museum on Sunday. It's been almost a year since he finished treatment for leukemia, his mom said.

Two people were killed in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Lemont.

A Joliet man faces two counts of possession of child sex abuse materials, a Class 2 felony, according to the Illinois State Police

The Illinois State Police responded to three crashes involving multiple vehicles along Interstate 80 in Joliet on Wednesday.

Attorneys defending several people against a conspiracy lawsuit filed by the former Joliet mayor are seeking to move the case outside of Will County.

An eight-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 near New Lenox has led to a shutdown of all westbound lanes and left one person in the hospital with injuries.

An Earlville teen died Monday, June 9, 2025, in a two-vehicle crash north of Compton in Lee County.

A crash on Interstate 80 in Joliet involved a semitrailer and briefly led to a lane closure.

Current law allows Illinois State Police to use the cameras for the investigation of cases involving vehicular hijacking, aggravated vehicular hijacking, terrorism, motor vehicle theft, or any forcible felony

Semi driver Eric Dodge of Ashton speaks four months after a near-fatal crash in which his truck veered off Interstate 88 between Rock Falls and Dixon, launched over Bollman Road overpass and landed in a cornfield.

Will County will pay $2.75 million for the dismissal of a federal lawsuit involving a sheriff’s lieutenant who was not charged over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man who initially took hostages at a bank.

While Illinois State Police has long investigated child sex crimes, a new measure would explicitly name addressing internet crimes against children as a core mission of its criminal division

A registered sex offender from McHenry has been charged with reproduction or distribution of child sexual abuse materials while he was on probation for a previous plea to child sex abuse.

Illinois State Police Troop 3 announced the results of roadside safety checks held in Cook, DuPage, Kane, and Will counties during May.

An 8-year-old boy is the most recent casualty of a car crash at a Chatham daycare April 28

A Florida man is behind bars in connection with an alleged road-rage shooting in Gurnee.

A Rock Falls man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Whiteside County Circuit Court, then apologized for fatally stabbing the man, whom he considered a friend.

A Homer Glen man was arrested after he was accused of threatening a Republican state lawmaker.

A two-vehicle crash in rural Prophetstown on Wednesday afternoon left one man dead and another injured, according to a news release from the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office.

One person is dead and another one injured after an early morning crash on Interstate 88 near Lisle

A three-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Bolingbrook led to the rollover of a semitrailer carrying products from a brewing company, police said.

Illinois State Police released preliminary toxicology results that showed no drugs or alcohol in the system of a driver who crashed into a central Illinois after-school program, killing four young girls

The teen’s name has not yet been officially released.

An Oswego man who died following a car crash in Montgomery on Wednesday has been identified.

Ronald Coleman admitted earlier this year that he was driving a semi-truck and trailer carrying over 91 kilograms of cocaine on I-88 in Whiteside County in 2023 while on his way to a warehouse in Chicago, where he was to exchange the cocaine for cash.

Lewis University in Romeoville will host an Illinois State Police youth camp for teens 13- to 17-year-olds in June.