The Latest Breaking News from Illinois State Police

A sedan drove onto the right shoulder and struck a parked SUV that belonged to a contractor working with IDOT

A semi-truck hit a passenger vehicle in the northbound lanes of Interstate 294 near 167th Street and then struck the left concrete median, Illinois State Police said.

Longtime U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel, the former leader of the Illinois State Police who went on to preside over the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the landmark Family Secrets mob trial, and many other of the area’s biggest cases, died Saturday night after a long illness,…

The bus was traveling west on Interstate 70 when it crashed into commercial vehicles parked on an exit ramp, the Illinois State Police said.

Illinois State Police say three people were killed and 14 others were injured, some seriously, when a Greyhound bus crashed into three tractor-trailers parked along a highway exit to a rest area in southern Illinois

In the immediate aftermath of last year’s mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade came the expected questions when such a tragedy unfolds: Who was the gunman? Where had his weapon come from?

An Illinois State Police air patrol traced a laser pointer flash to a home in Berkeley. Saul Martinez Castanon, 36, was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct. Airline pilots had reported encountering lasers in the area.

Alton Mills, 54, had his life sentence commuted in 2015 after serving 22 years

Ruth Rau, 81, of downstate Sorento, died Tuesday night at a hospital, Illinois State Police said.

About 11:50 a.m., state troopers responded to I-290 near Cicero Avenue for the shooting and took two people to area hospitals, according to Illinois State Police.

About 12:30 p.m., state troopers responded to a call of two people lying in the northbound lanes of I-90 near the Eisenhower Expressway overpass, Illinois State Police said.