SPRINGFIELD — Illinois State Police Lt. Col. David Byrd was the on-call supervisor the night Chicago Fire Department Lt. Scott Gillen was struck and killed while assisting a crash…
It’s difficult to take when something you’ve strived for your entire adult life starts falling apart, especially if it costs the lives of people you work with. That’s the situation…
SPRINGFIELD — Already in 2019, motorists have hit 14 squad cars stopped along Illinois roads. One of those incidents cost an Illinois State Police trooper his life. “This information…
More than a year after her son’s death, Reginice McBride is still looking for answers. Information about her son’s killer could be sitting on a mask or a blood-stained T-shirt…
State police arrested Rev. Gregory Livingston and several other protesters on Labor Day (Sept. 3) as participants tried to march shortly past noon on the Cumberland Avenue ramp in Chicago….
State elected leaders are offering the Illinois State Police close to carte blanche to remedy the crime lab backlog that has some families of murder victims waiting more than a year…
State lawmakers will name stretches of Illinois roadways in honor of two state troopers, a soldier killed in the Vietnam War and a Madison County Medevac pilot. Two of the honorary…
An Illinois State Police trooper who got a second chance at life is seeking a second chance at his job and getting legislative support to do just that. Trooper Michael Cokins, who suffered…
