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As the new school year gets underway, some parents and educators are thinking about safety. One area in particular is making sure parents and students can find each other after a crisis occurs.

DuPage County Judicial and Public Safety Committee met Tuesday, April 18

A black boy is kicked into a coma in Chicago, setting off unlikely spectacles and confounding the judicial system.

In an effort to improve rice production in the country, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA), has disclosed plans to deploy rice production technology from China.

The 'purge law' - as it has been called by detractors - is now in effect in Illinois

The Illinois Supreme Court halted the abolition of the cash bail system in the state on Saturday, just one day before that landmark criminal justice reform was poised to take effect.

The justices issued their order Saturday evening, hours before the new law was slated to take effect, to maintain the status quo across the state.

Threat. eliminating the wealth-based advantage. >> in 35 years that ive been a prosecutor, this is probably the biggest change in the criminal justice system that i have ever seen. >> dupaige county states attorney robert berlin was using the ads attacking the law -- >> violent criminals out on the streets. >> he and other states attorneys secured changes signed into law this month. >> i was a vocal critic back then, but with this amendment, thats changed everything. judges have the tools with v...

Illinois state lawmakers have an opportunity to correct the gravest missteps baked into the SAFE-T Act. The best way to do that would be rescind the entire Act and start over. But Illinois Dems won't. Why should they dismantle SAFE-T, they'll ask, given the elections they swept last week?

Bond was denied for a man accused of opening fire at a shopping mall in west suburban Lombard last week.