CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois State Police leaders were questioned Tuesday about DNA backlogs at state crime labs. Families of murder victims have been waiting for DNA to be processed as potential ...

A date is now set for when a Macon County judge will rule on a motion that could turn an infamous Decatur murder case on its ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (CBS) -- A tiny hand crafted from DNA in a lab in Illinois may be able to help researchers get a hold of viruses and isolate them. Scientists at the University of Illinois ...

MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. — The circumstances surrounding the death of 18-year-old Jackson Kradle, whose body was found along Illinois Route 78 north of Mount Carroll on July 28 last year, continue to ...

The Illinois Family Roots Pilot program is expanding across the state after launching in June with 250 kits. A program aimed at helping Black residents trace their ancestry, and in some cases, ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois Attorney General's Office has entered the courtroom in the Illinois Innocence Project's effort to overturn the Slover family's murder convictions. In early June, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State Police is to receive $2.5 million in federal money to reduce the state's backlog of DNA evidence. Illinois State Police director Jonathon Monken on Monday ...

ST. LOUIS — A man whose body was found in the Mississippi River south of St. Louis in 1994 has finally been identified after authorities exhumed his remains to collect new DNA samples.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois legislators have passed a bill requiring sex offenders and people arrested for serious violent crimes to give DNA samples that will comprise a statewide DNA database.

This is based on a mix of historical accounts, the discovery of body lice on the remains of soldiers (which carried the ...