SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Illinois State Senators got an update on the state's DNA processing backlog for murders and other violent crimes at a Thursday hearing. Some families have waited years for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There are still hundreds of Chicago murder cases waiting years for DNA analysis by Illinois' crime labs, even after the ABC 7 I-Team uncovered the backlog 10 months ago. Since then, ...

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 ...

At issue: will a judge allow samples to be run through state and national databases? Defense claims samples could identify ...

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, ...

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 ...

NORTH AURORA, Ill. (WGN) — Authorities have linked a suspected serial killer to the kidnapping and murder of a 19-year-old Illinois woman, more than 45 years after her death. The DNA of Bruce Lindahl, ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – The battle over evidence continues in the reopened Karyn Hearn Slover murder case.

Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NORTH AURORA, Ill. (WGN) — Authorities have ...