Elgin wants to make changes to its contract with the Downtown Neighborhood Association, including the introduction of what DNA officials call “unfunded mandates” and the appointment of ...

The state has seen a growing backlog of untested samples and has struggled to improve testing turnaround time. State labs have more than 8,000 unfinished DNA tests, according to June numbers from ...

Many Black people in the U.S. cannot trace their ancestry because earlier generations of their family were enslaved. But an ...

Illinois has launched a statewide initiative aimed at helping African Americans reco nnect their ancestral ties to Africa.

Danville officials say DNA tests on evidence found at the scene of 18-year-old Virginia Sue Nipper's March 1980 strangulation death point to James R. Lyons as her attacker.