Jails that routinely fail inspections can be referred to the attorney general — but the Department of Corrections hasn’t done so in over a decade.

County jails were restraining people in chairs for long periods and underreporting it. Now, three counties that used them the most report doing so less, and other jails started reporting such incidents for the first time.

An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody fatalities. Now the state is auditing its records.

Use of pepperball guns in Illinois jails is not the norm. Of the 90 jails, 11 reported using them in recent years, and 9 others have them on hand. But one, the state’s second-largest county jail, stands out for its repeated use.

Illinois county jails report thousands of “extraordinary or unusual” incidents every year, but the state doesn’t keep track. So we stepped in to shed light on what’s happening inside.

Ko'u Hopkins sits down with Andreas Bauer and talks about Springfield and the United States from a German perspective

The National Park Service is collaborating with several Springfield organizations for “Three Hot Days in August,” running from Thursday to Sunday.

The exhibit will examine the causes, impact and lasting legacy of the August 1908 Springfield race riot while highlighting the experiences of Springfield’s Black community and the event’s importance in the broader history of civil rights and anti-lynching activism.

She trained from sunrise to midnight to make history. Meet Brittany Apgar, a founding Women's Pro Baseball League player inspiring the next generation in Springfield.

The Joliet Treatment Center, designed to treat people with serious mental illness, repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires despite two deaths, an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Sun-Times found.