This marks the second time that 62-year-old Philip Matthew Hastings has been in the Will County Jail since late October.

JOLIET, Ill. — A teenage girl who slipped into an abandoned Illinois prison for an urban adventure ended up serving a short sentence when she accidentally locked herself inside a cell. Illinois State ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- State employees, the poor, the elderly and the disabled will be among the first to see the impact as state government cuts programs to solve a $500 million budget crisis. Gov.