Dwight Baird News Today

A new law allowed gun owners to keep assault weapons if they disclosed them. Illinois county registration rates ranged from 0.5% to 1.8%.

Communities all over the country are shutting their jails. Sometimes this is because of victories like bail reform. But foes of mass incarceration don’t always benefit.

The two teens shot May 26 have been released from the hospital as police ask for witnesses to step forward with information about the incident.

A retrospective of 45 years of selected paintings and drawings by Montreal artist, Dwight Baird takes place Saturday and Sunday, Apr. 22, 23 from 1 to 4 pm at Alfred-Langevin

The sheriffs of Kane and Kendall counties made their voices heard Thursday about a new law that prohibits the sale of a wide range of semi-automatic firearms in Illinois.

I am a morning person. I was always an early riser. Even as a kid I remember waking up before my parents. At school I was among the first to

See election results, maps, county-by-county vote counts and more for Illinois’s races on Nov. 8, 2022.

Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser has spent the last two weeks working with other state’s attorneys, law enforcement officials and legislators to make changes to the SAFE-T Act before its introduction Jan. 1, 2023.

A Montgomery man was sentenced to 43 years in prison Friday for the car-crash death of a man he was chasing. The car crashed because somebody fired bullets at it, flattening a tire.

Eric Weis is suing the state over the cashless bail system scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, joining several other state’s attorneys who have made a similar move.