There are a lot of ways to measure crime in Illinois. You can focus on violent crime and/or property crime. But, if you're looking purely at the crime index, there are 10 Illinois places worse than the rest and remarkably none of them are Chicago.
A former East St. Louis police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges accusing him of failing to intervene when another officer pepper-sprayed two sleeping jail detainees.
Two men — Peter L. Campbell, 46, and Joseph L. Hart, 36, — have been sentenced to decades in prison for the first-degree-murder of Rashidi L. Overstreet, 40, in 2014.
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