CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois State Police leaders were questioned Tuesday about DNA backlogs at state crime labs. Families of murder victims have been waiting for DNA to be processed as potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo credit: Adobe Stock) The Illinois Family Roots Pilot program is expanding across the state after launching in June with 250 ...

A skull found in the wall of an Illinois home in the 1970s was identified this week as that of a Civil War-era teenage girl — whose corpse was likely snatched by grave robbers long ago, authorities ...

Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service. DNA experts have solved the mystery of an Illinois man who went ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (CBS) -- A tiny hand crafted from DNA in a lab in Illinois may be able to help researchers get a hold of viruses and isolate them. Scientists at the University of Illinois ...

ASHLAND, Va. — Almost 50 years after his death, an Illinois native who was killed in a traffic crash in Virginia in 1977 has been identified. The former “Ashland John Doe” was fatally struck by a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois legislators have passed a bill requiring sex offenders and people arrested for serious violent crimes to give DNA samples that will comprise a statewide DNA database.

The Illinois Family Roots Pilot program is expanding across the state after launching in June with 250 kits. A program aimed at helping Black residents trace their ancestry, and in some cases, ...