The prison’s buildings sit on a rural patch just off Interstate 55, abutting farm fields, a small cemetery and the west fork of the Mazon River ... white columns of Fox Developmental Center ...

Karen Schepers was seen for the last time on April 16, 1983, at a work party at a bar in Carpentersville. She was the last ...

A Streator man was found guilty of murder in connection with a 2021 shooting that left one man dead in Montgomery.

For Carrie, in Logan women’s prison, it’s gratitude for “rain falling on my forehead and grass between my toes.” A parade of ...

ELGIN, Illinois -- Skeletal human remains have been found inside ... The WLS-TV news helicopter was over the scene as crews ...

Karen Schepers, a 23-year-old woman who went missing in 1983, was positively identified from human skeletal remains found in ...

Members of the Elgin Police Department and the nonprofit Chaos Divers use sonar to search for Karen Schepers and her 1980 Toyota Celica in the Fox River on March 24, 2025, in Elgin. (Stacey ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Illinois has become the first state in the nation to ensure that public schools, hospitals and other state-run institutions like prisons offer halal and kosher meals to those who ...

Schepers, 23, was last seen around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983, after leaving PM Bentley’s, a bar located in the Meadowdale Shopping Center in Carpentersville. She was there with co-workers and according ...

Penny Weaver is an award-winning journalist who covers crime, law enforcement, court proceedings and more for the River Valley Democrat ... issues to hog farming in Illinois, Georgia, Texas ...

An Illinois bill that could drastically change ... but it threatens an education revolution that so many minorities are benefiting from." Fox News’ Jamie Joseph and Andrea Margolis contributed ...