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Retired Chief Circuit Judge Beth Robb knew she wanted to be a lawyer as early as Junior High School in Macomb. It wasn't easy. She went to Illinois Wesleyan University and on to law school, then came back to Bloomington-Normal and couldn’t get a job
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The Bloomington teen faces four counts of first-degree murder for the death of 19-year-old Nicholas Zapata of Normal.
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McLean County courts hope to use data on juvenile offenders to reduce adult crime and punishment in central Illinois. The effort has two prongs — improving interventions for troubled children, and a potential specialty court for offenders aged 18 to 25.
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A Bloomington teen faces 2 1/2 years in a state prison for juveniles for bringing a loaded gun to Bloomington High School last fall.
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The Pritzker administration has announced a new center for incarcerated youth is coming to central Illinois.The Illinois Youth Center will be at the site…
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A hearing is scheduled for Thursday for a 10-year-old Goodfield boy accused of causing an April 2019 fire that killed five people.The boy, who is the…
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One day after a 9-year-old was arraigned on murder charges, a juvenile justice advocate on Tuesday questioned the Woodford County prosecutor’s decision to…