Justice News

The Justice police officer who's being sued for allegedly forcing a Burbank woman to engage in oral sex with him last spring has a police record of repeated departmental violations and suspensions.

It takes a village to raise the lovechild of a former underground dining club and what was once just a plucky little pie truck.

Nearly one in five inmates at a now-defunct Joliet youth prison reported being victims of sexual assault, one of the highest rates of any youth detention center in the country, according to a report released Thursday morning by the U.S. Department of Justice.

During the George Zimmerman trial, the Sanford area will be getting some spiritual guidance.

Anti-violence group CeaseFire Illinois has named an interim director as it searches for a permanent replacement for Tio Hardiman, who was removed following his arrest for alleged domestic battery last weekend.

Community activists and anti-violence experts from across the country will meet during the next four days at Cleveland State University to discuss solutions to quell violence in urban neighborhoods.

While many people plan menus for backyard barbecues for this coming Memorial Day weekend, local veterans organizations are planning for the annual commemorations being held Monday to honor the men and women who died in all of America's wars.

Friday, May 17 "I'm a Pedophile" A white man in his 20s with long brown hair approached a man around 3:37 p.m. in the 500 block of South 10 th Avenue and said he was a pedophile, La Grange police said.