The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to pay an outside consultant an estimated $550,000 over the next year to assess ...

With the new play Searching for Justice, Mud Theatre Project has bloomed into something bigger than its founders ever ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, who was convicted in a federal bribery case, has requested his sentence be commuted. If his petition is granted, that would allow him to be released from prison sooner.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A corrupt Chicago contractor ... after a judge sentenced Mark Diamond to 17 years in prison for scamming their mother, Etta Quintero, and other elderly African American homeowners ...

A civil liberties group is concerned that state Sen. Terri Bryant is encouraging prison workers to circumvent the state’s ...