For Carrie, in Logan women’s prison, it’s gratitude for “rain falling on my forehead and grass between my toes.” But when we asked hundreds of people in Illinois prisons and jails how they ...

It took six months for Maria Garza to finally feel home for good after leaving prison. Garza was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections in June 2021 and spent the next six months bou ...

prior to operation, though haunted houses operated by not-for-profit religious, educational, or charitable organizations can apply for an exemption from IDOL inspection. Two tragic fires in the 1970s ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Illinois has become the first state in the nation to ensure that public schools, hospitals and other state-run institutions like prisons offer halal and kosher meals to those who ...