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Chicago experts say children who witness or experience domestic violence are more likely to join gangs.

A controversial plan would have the census count Illinois’ inmates as residing in their hometown.

Inside the Cook County Jail law library, ten men were hunched over laptops playing online chess. A live video of their competitors, inmates in Russian prisons, was projected on the front wall. 

An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with HIV remained jailed Tuesday as police investigated another claim of similar misconduct by the man involving a different student.

Illinois lawmakers are still negotiating a bill that would ban juveniles from receiving life sentences in prison. It comes nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional. 

The Chicago Police Board dismisses two officers for conduct captured on a 2011 recording.

Indian immigrants in unincoporated Des Plaines have been victims of a recent phone scam, which has defrauded some of thousands of dollars.