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The Illinois Attorney General's Office is working with state lawmakers to draft legislation that would require hospitals to have a specially trained…
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An Illinois Congresswoman helped unveil a new bill this week that would prohibit lawmakers from using taxpayer dollars to pay for sexual harassment and…
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A faster response to reports of sexual assault and more sensitive treatment of victims are the goals of new Illinois guidelines for law-enforcement…
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New bylaws from the University of Illinois fraternities' governing board will require all chapters to train their members on how to intervene to prevent…
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan testified in support of Senate Bill 189. It would eliminate the statute of limitations for child abuse and assault…
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A DeKalb County jury found 28-year-old Andrew Rifkin not guilty of sexually assaulting a Northern Illinois University freshman student in 2011, according…
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A former Sycamore resident who abducted and raped an NIU student in 2001 at gunpoint is asking a judge to reconsider a decision that changed his jail…
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Vice President Joe Biden told students on the University of Illinois Urbana campus Thursday that preventing sexual assault is a shared…
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Northern Illinois University is moving forward on a sweeping plan to deal with sexual assault on campus.NIU’s Presidential Task Force on the Violence…
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The DeKalb County State's Attorney lashed out at a judge Thursday, after a Seattle man was acquitted of rape charges. Jack McCullough was found not guilty…