Use this map to find your way to one of Illinois’ most impressive barbecue destinations. Some restaurants serve meals, others ...

In the great barbecue debate, folks usually throw around places like Austin, Memphis, or Kansas City, but the quest for transcendent brisket might end in an unexpected location: a modest storefront in ...

Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside and their advocates to question the state’s plan to build two new prisons.

Incarcerated men say Illinois prison guards forced them into painful stress positions and forced them to rub their genitals ...

Byron Frazier, 32, was convicted last year of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, armed violence, and armed ...

Three transgender people incarcerated in federal custody sued the Trump administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Friday in a class action lawsuit over new policies restricting their ...

CHICAGO ( WGN) — A former female corrections officer at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center is scheduled to face a federal judge Thursday afternoon, accused of sexually abusing four women who ...

Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times Supported by By Alexandra Berzon Allison McCann and Hamed Aleaziz Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and ...

Illinois correctional officer Danny L. Spyker is charged with engaging in sexual acts with two inmates at Federal ...

An Illinois man will spend more than a decade behind bars for supplying a Marathon County drug trafficking organization. In a ...