When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the former ... Wayne City is a village in Wayne County in the Southern District of Illinois. The Illinois State Police is leading the investigation ...

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