A National Shooting Sports Foundation report on April background checks shows gun sales surged in states where “radical measures” against Second Amendment rights have been adopted or are about to take effect.
Six drivers died and more than 30 were injured Monday on Interstate 55 after dozens of cars and trucks slammed into each other during a dust storm near Springfield in central Illinois.
U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn issued a preliminary injunction against Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban Friday, noting in his opinion that there are already plenty of gun laws on the books and those laws need to be enforced.
A man accused of stabbing his girlfriend allegedly told her, “I thought you were dead” when she woke up several hours later.
Illinois taxpayers are set to be hit with a billion-dollar bill providing healthcare benefits to newly arrived illegal aliens in the state thanks to Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), according to estimates.
Missing U.S. Navy sailor Seamus Gray was found dead on Wednesday. His body was pulled from Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Illinois.
Officials have reportedly implemented updated rules to keep people from trying to smuggle drug-laced papers into Illinois’ Cook County Jail.
An Illinois teenager has been arrested for allegedly selling “fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills that were intended to resemble legitimate prescription medications,” according to police.
Border crossers and illegal aliens, recently bused to the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, from Texas, have been found living inside a downtown police station, local reports confirm.
Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D) is hoping to transform Illinois’s most populous city with his progressive agenda, including opening local school board elections to illegal aliens, among other foreign nationals.
The roof of a theater in Illinois collapsed during a tornado Friday and reportedly killed at least one person and injured at least 48 others.
Four Chicago teenagers are accused of robberies involving four victims Sunday. Two suspects reportedly have lengthy criminal records.
A nine-year-old was recognized Tuesday for thinking fast when her mother experienced an emergency at home in Aurora, Illinois, last month.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Buffalo Wild Wings by a man from Chicago who claims the restaurant chain is engaging in “a clear-cut case of false advertising” by labeling some of its menu items “boneless wings,” which the lawsuit claims are “more akin, in composition, to a chicken nugget rather than a chicken wing.”
Following an incident earlier this month in which Volkswagen refused to provide law enforcement with the location of a stolen car with a kidnapped child still inside, the automaker has agreed to make its car-tracking service free.
Naperville, Illinois, gun store owner Robert Bevis is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to issue an injunction against the implementation of the state’s “assault weapons” ban.
A Chicago woman is accused of stabbing someone in January while she was on bail for alleged stabbings last year, this as the city endures rampant crime.
Volkswagen refused to use its GPS tracking feature to assist Illinois police in tracking a stolen car with a kidnapped 2-year-old boy inside. The company wouldn’t track the stolen vehicle because the owner’s GPS subscription had expired, leading a representative to tell the police the subscription would have to be reactivated for the automaker to help. Luckily, the boy was found unharmed dumped in a parking lot.
A Chicago Man has been accused of committing a string of robberies by arranging meetings via Facebook Marketplace.
Dozens of Chicago schools have reportedly claimed none of their students are proficient in math or reading.
A Chicago-area man is accused of tying up a woman in his mother’s basement and beating her after meeting the woman on a dating app.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is triggered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s visit to the city, mockingly stating that New Yorkers are “happy to teach” him “something about values.”
More than 7-in-10 criminal suspects released from jail without bail go on to be rearrested for allegedly committing more crimes, a new study reveals.
Hundreds of migrants bused to Chicago, Illinois, from mostly Texas may soon be housed in an old Kmart store if state officials get their way.
A dog who disappeared from Mansfield, Illinois, has been found safe in Greenville, Alabama, to everyone’s relief.
Residents of Chicago’s South Side, home to the city’s poorest neighborhoods, are outraged as Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot spends millions housing newly arrived border crossers in an abandoned school.
A pair of Chicago men described as “gang intervention workers” were arrested for their alleged involvement in an illegal gun sale to an undercover police officer, according to a report.
The city of Chicago, Illinois, in partnership with big business, is launching an effort to score jobs for foreign H-1B visa workers who have been laid off from their tech jobs in recent weeks.
Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker called for AP Courses that teach “black queer American” history in response to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rejecting AP classes about black Americans.
Des Plaines Councilwoman Alderman Carla Brookman slammed censor-happy leftists and hecklers during a recent city council meeting, proclaiming, “If you don’t allow discussion, that is a real problem in our society.” Woke residents of Des Plaines, Illinois, were outraged to
Effingham County Judge Joshua Morrison issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) Friday, stopping, for now, the implementation of the Illinois ban on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.
Sheriffs in 80 Illinois counties are making clear they will not enforce the “assault weapons” ban Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law on Tuesday.
Pritzker signed a bill that protects out-of-state abortion seekers, as well as abortionists and doctors who perform sex-mutilating surgeries.
Illinois State Rep. Blaine Wilhour (R) responded to Gov. JB Pritzker’s signing of a ban on commonly owned semiautomatic weapons by stating, “We will not comply.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed legislation Wednesday night banning commonly owned semiautomatic rifles and magazines which Democrats consider “high capacity.”
Hundreds of teachers in Chicago’s public school system raped, sexually assaulted, and groomed students last year.
Illinois Democrats in the state House are crying foul in response to state Senate president Don Harmon’s (D) amendment removing a requirement that owners of “assault weapons” register them.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is vowing to “fight” for a Democrat-approved law that is set to abolish bail statewide, freeing many violent crime suspects from jail before trial, after the state’s Supreme Court stalled the measure.
She allegedly screamed,”There are too many children!” as she threw her coffee at a pro-life advocate outside the abortion clinic.
Abortionists in Illinois say they are seeing a rise in out-of-state patients from more states than ever before.
