Hate crimes—felonies motivated by bias—are legally recognized in Illinois, but the lack of police frameworks to appropriately ...

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.

Illinois Senate Bill 3552 would require all officers in Illinois be trained on how to identity these incidents and assist victims.

Already approved by the state Senate, the bill aims to stem rising antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant violence ...

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

Twelve of the 15 Salisbury University students accused of attacking and beating a man in Maryland because of his sexual ...

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

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 ...

Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi, accused shooter in a hate crime, was found dead by apparent suicide in Cook County Jail.