crimes

The City of Peoria has recorded three homicides so far in 2026, compared with two at the same point in 2025. Just one of those cases has been solved. The number of shooting incidents and gunshot victims has held steady compared with the same period last year, according to a new report from the Peoria Police Department.

A Peoria man who believes a pivotal conversation in prison gave him a second chance at life wants to extend that second chance to others.

About 35 of 80 Illinois inmates in who received mandatory life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed as juveniles have been resentenced since the…

A Northern Illinois prosecutor is launching a program to let some people who accept responsibility for their crimes to erase their convictions from their…