John Jones, Fayetteville's first Office of Community Safety director, sat down with the Observer to talk about his goals for ...

Indianapolis city councilors face several challenges, including a proposal to strengthen the youth curfew, and calls for leadership change.

Can a club shut down following a shooting that takes a life reopen gradually months later this time as a BYOB “restaurant”? The answer in Chicago is a resounding yes, and the cost has been horrific.

CHICAGO — Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits said Wednesday.

Opinion by Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk after attending U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida: “Now more ...

A new master’s program will train Philadelphia Police Department officers to be better managers and innovate department-wide ...

A 9-year-old Koabie Mincey happened by his mother’s window in Newark one afternoon in the summer of 2008. What he saw beyond the walnut brown shade and black fire escape shook him. So much so, it ...

• It is not intersectionality. It is anti-intersectionality, because it erases every other war survivor who isn’t Palestinian ...

Authorities say Manuel Quintero is a notorious Mexican Mafia figure nicknamed Snuffy long suspected of running rackets for the prison-based syndicate. The latest case against him involves an alleged ...

After a shooting outside of Mello Buckzz’s mixtape release party, some took to social media to discuss the impact of drill ...

The Democratic primary race for the Illinois 9th Congressional District is heating up with at least a dozen candidates, ...