The cover of Heather Ann Thompson’s Pulitzer Prize winning book on the Attica prison riot. Following a lawsuit settlement, every prison library in Illinois is getting a copy of the book.

Illinois man sentenced to 4.5 years for attacking two during Jan. 6 Capitol riot CHICAGO (CBS) -- An Illinois man has been sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison for assaulting a police officer and a ...

A southern Illinois man has pleaded guilty to a destruction of property charge after he smashed a window in the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots, according to the U.S. attorney ...

The riot at the Montana State Prison a decade ago left five inmates dead, the maximum-security building in ruins, and prison officials condemned for poor security and ignoring warning signs that ...

A 37-year-old Hamilton County man who admitted to damaging a window in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol was given an 11-month prison sentence in a federal court hearing conducted just ...

Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 riot help more than 50 defendants from Illinois A Chicago Sun-Times review found 43 of the 53 defendants from Illinois had been convicted and sentenced. Trump pardoned ...

CHICAGO — A Central Illinois man pleaded guilty Friday to felony charges for assaulting a law enforcement officer and a member of the news media during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol ...

Federal prosecutors' sentencing memo for Thomas B. Adams Jr., an Illinois man convicted in the January 6 riot, warns of a "risk of another attack." ...

More than 50 Donald Trump supporters from Illinois will get their federal rap sheets wiped clean after the new president’s Day 1 signing of about 1,500 pardons related to the notorious riot at ...