Civil rights groups are urging Illinois lawmakers to pass Senate bill 3552, which would require police officers to undergo ...

Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of Darien, Illinois, was charged with two felony hate crime counts and one count of misdemeanor ...

Advocates gathered Tuesday to push for a bill requiring Illinois police officers to undergo hate crime training, citing a dramatic rise in reported hate crimes statewide.

A man facing felony terrorism and hate crime charges after authorities said he shot a Jewish man and fired at responding ...

An illegal migrant accused of shooting an Orthodox Jewish man on his way to a Chicago Synagogue used his cellphone to search ...

A dramatic rise in hate crimes across the nation and state is prompting representatives from different racial, ethnic, religious and gender communities to join forces.

Civil rights groups came together to call for change on Monday in response to a rise in hate crimes across the U.S., including in Illinois. NBC Chicago’s Patrick Fazio reports. Civil rights groups ...

A Chicago hate crime shooting suspect is dead after being found unresponsive at the Cook County Jail's health center, the ...

National outrage cooled after Chicago officials waited five days to confirm that 22-year-old Mauritanian national Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi’s target in an Oct. 26 shooting in Chicago was an Orthodox Jewi ...

The suspect, who according to prosecutors had mapped Jewish sites in Chicago, had been charged with hate crime and terrorism ...