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J.B. Pritzker is set to become the 43rd governor of Illinois on Monday. He won in part by promising to make college more affordable, improve the state’s…

A new report is trying to calculate a more realistic tally of what crime costs in Illinois.The report looks at recidivism — that is, people who get out of…

Five of the six Democrats running for governor were in Peoria over the Martin Luther King Day weekend. They were making largely similar cases to voters at…

As Chicago confronts an increasing murder rate, the Illinois legislature is trying to take on the root causes of violence in some of the state's most…

A House committee Wednesday gave the nod to a measure that could lighten the sentence of a mentally ill criminal.A judge can take a lot 16 different…

Gov. Bruce Rauner endorsed the work of his criminal justice commission Thursday. He also made an unusual statement on prisons.Commissioners are still…

State of the State Podcast:A New Way To Think About 'High-Crime' NeighborhoodsTRANSCRIPT: From NPR Illinois, it’s State of the State. I’m Brian Mackey,…

Most experts say the governor’s target of a 25 percent reduction in the state's prison population can't be met by simply backing off the war on drugs.…

Illinois could finally reckon with its dramatically overcrowded prisons in 2016.The entire system is at 146 percent of the capacity it was designed to…

On episode 16 of the State of the State podcast, a commission working on an overhaul of Illinois’ criminal justice system has approved its first set of…