Illinois
What Illinois's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Illinois handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Police officer for non-detainable offenses; circuit or associate judge at first appearance
- Who that is
- Judges and others
- Release on a schedule
- No
- Time to see a judge
- 48 hours
- Money bail
- Abolished (2023)
- Risk assessment
- Some counties
- Prosecutor
- State's attorney, one per county, elected
- Public defense
- County public defender
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
Illinois has no money bail. Police may release a person charged with an offense for which release can't be denied, without a judge. Anyone charged with an offense for which the state can seek detention goes before a circuit or associate judge.
725 ILCS 5/109-1- Time to see a judge
A person arrested and not released must be taken before a judge without unnecessary delay and within 48 hours, and a charge must be filed.
725 ILCS 5/109-1(a)- Money bail
Illinois abolished money bail under the Pretrial Fairness Act, which took effect September 18, 2023. Judges release people on conditions or, after a hearing on a state petition, order them detained.
725 ILCS 5/110-1.5
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
Reported offenses and arrests per 100,000 people, year by year, and how Illinois compares with the country. They will come from the FBI's state totals.
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 94%
- of Illinois's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 80%
- 744 of 925 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
181 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Alpha Police DepartmentCity
- Apple River Police DepartmentCity
- Atlanta Police DepartmentCity
- Baldwin Police DepartmentCity
- Benedictine University: LisleUniversity or College
- Benton Police DepartmentCity
- Blandinsville Police DepartmentCity
- Bradford Police DepartmentCity
- Bridgeview Police DepartmentCity
- Broadview Police DepartmentCity
- Brooklyn Police DepartmentCity
- Brookport Police DepartmentCity
- Buffalo-Mechanicsburg Police DepartmentCity
- Bunker Hill Police DepartmentCity
- Bureau Police DepartmentCity
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe RailwayOther
- Bushnell Police DepartmentCity
- Cahokia Heights Police DepartmentCity
- Cairo Police DepartmentCity
- Cambria Police DepartmentCity
- Camp Point Police DepartmentCity
- Canadian National RailwayOther
- Canadian Pacific RailwayOther
- Central City Police DepartmentCity
- Chadwick Police DepartmentCity
- Chicago Fire Department Arson InvestigationsOther
- Chicago Heights Park DistrictOther
- Cobden Police DepartmentCity
- Coffeen Police DepartmentCity
- Columbia Police DepartmentCity
- Cook County HospitalOther
- Creve Coeur Police DepartmentCity
- CSX TransportationOther
- Dana Police DepartmentCity
- De Pue Police DepartmentCity
- De Soto Police DepartmentCity
- Decatur Park DistrictOther
- Dixmoor Police DepartmentCity
- Dolton Police DepartmentCity
- Dongola Police DepartmentCity
- Douglas County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Downs Police DepartmentCity
- Dunfermline Police DepartmentCity
- East Carondelet Police DepartmentCity
- East Dubuque Police DepartmentCity
- East St. Louis Police DepartmentCity
- Easton Police DepartmentCity
- Elgin, Joliet and Eastern RailwayOther
- Elmwood Police DepartmentCity
- Enfield Police DepartmentCity
- Equality Police DepartmentCity
- Essex Police DepartmentCity
- Eureka Police DepartmentCity
- Farmersville Police DepartmentCity
- Fon du Lac Park DistrictOther
- Forest City Police DepartmentCity
- Franklin Grove Police DepartmentCity
- Freeport Park DistrictOther
- Fulton County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Galena Police DepartmentCity
- Gallatin County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Galva Police DepartmentCity
- Georgetown Police DepartmentCity
- German Valley Police DepartmentCity
- Gillespie Police DepartmentCity
- Girard Police DepartmentCity
- Glasford Police DepartmentCity
- Goodfield Police DepartmentCity
- Governors State UniversityUniversity or College
- Grand Tower Police DepartmentCity
- Grandview Police DepartmentCity
- Greater Rockford AirportOther
- Green Valley Police DepartmentCity
- Greenview Police DepartmentCity
- Gulfport Police DepartmentCity
- Hardin County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Hardin Police DepartmentCity
- Herscher Police DepartmentCity
- Hillsdale Police DepartmentCity
- Holiday Hills Police DepartmentCity
- Hurst Police DepartmentCity
- Hutsonville Police DepartmentCity
- Illinois Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control UnitOther State Agency
- Indiana Harbor Belt RailroadOther
- Irving Police DepartmentCity
- Irvington Police DepartmentCity
- Johnston City Police DepartmentCity
- Jonesboro Police DepartmentCity
- Kane County Forest PreserveOther
- Kankakee Police DepartmentCity
- La Harpe Police DepartmentCity
- La Moille Police DepartmentCity
- Leland Grove Police DepartmentCity
- Lena Police DepartmentCity
- Lewistown Police DepartmentCity
- Ludlow Police DepartmentCity
- Lynwood Police DepartmentCity
- Lyons Police DepartmentCity
- Madison Police DepartmentCity
- Marine Police DepartmentCity
- Markham Police DepartmentCity
- Maroa Police DepartmentCity
- Marquette Heights Police DepartmentCity
- Matteson Police DepartmentCity
- Maywood Police DepartmentCity
- McCullom Lake Police DepartmentCity
- McDonough County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Meredosia Police DepartmentCity
- Merrionette Park Police DepartmentCity
- Metamora Police DepartmentCity
- Milford Police DepartmentCity
- Mount Morris Police DepartmentCity
- Moweaqua Police DepartmentCity
- Murrayville Police DepartmentCity
- Nashville Police DepartmentCity
- Neponset Police DepartmentCity
- Norfolk Southern Railway: Cook CountyOther
- Norfolk Southern Railway: Macon CountyOther
- Norfolk Southern Railway: Madison CountyOther
- Northwestern University: ChicagoUniversity or College
- Northwestern University: EvanstonUniversity or College
- Oak Forest Health CenterOther
- Oquawka Police DepartmentCity
- Orland Hills Police DepartmentCity
- Palmyra Police DepartmentCity
- Park City Police DepartmentCity
- Petersburg Police DepartmentCity
- Pierron Police DepartmentCity
- Pocahontas Police DepartmentCity
- Pope County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Prairie du Rocher Police DepartmentCity
- Prairie State CollegeUniversity or College
- Ramsey Police DepartmentCity
- Raymond Police DepartmentCity
- Ridgway Police DepartmentCity
- Robbins Police DepartmentCity
- Roodhouse Police DepartmentCity
- Round Lake Park DistrictOther
- Royalton Police DepartmentCity
- Savanna Police DepartmentCity
- Schiller Park Police DepartmentCity
- Shawneetown Police DepartmentCity
- Sheldon Police DepartmentCity
- Sheridan Police DepartmentCity
- Sorento Police DepartmentCity
- Southern Illinois University: EdwardsvilleUniversity or College
- St. Francisville Police DepartmentCity
- St. Jacob Police DepartmentCity
- State Fire MarshalOther State Agency
- Staunton Police DepartmentCity
- Stonington Police DepartmentCity
- Stronghurst Police DepartmentCity
- Tampico Police DepartmentCity
- Teutopolis Police DepartmentCity
- Thomson Police DepartmentCity
- Ullin Police DepartmentCity
- Union Pacific Railroad: Cook CountyOther
- Union Pacific Railroad: St. Clair CountyOther
- Venice Police DepartmentCity
- Villa Grove Police DepartmentCity
- Viola Police DepartmentCity
- Virginia Police DepartmentCity
- Walnut Police DepartmentCity
- Wamac Police DepartmentCity
- Washburn Police DepartmentCity
- Washington Park Police DepartmentCity
- Waterloo Police DepartmentCity
- Waverly Police DepartmentCity
- West Salem Police DepartmentCity
- Western Illinois UniversityUniversity or College
- Williamsfield Police DepartmentCity
- Williamson County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Willisville Police DepartmentCity
- Winchester Police DepartmentCity
- Witt Police DepartmentCity
- Woodford County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Woodhull Police DepartmentCity
- Wyoming Police DepartmentCity
- Yates City Police DepartmentCity
- Zeigler Police DepartmentCity
- Zion Park DistrictOther
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Every agency in Illinois by county, with the year each began sending incident detail to the FBI. They will come from the FBI's agency list and its NIBRS master files.
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Illinois State Police, Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting (I-UCR) Program
- Incident reporting
- Yes, the Illinois NIBRS Repository (built in 2021); Illinois switched from SRS to NIBRS on January 1, 2021.
- Annual report
- Crime in Illinois (Annual Uniform Crime Report)Latest edition: 2021. Editions online 1997 to 2021. 2010 and 2011 are one combined edition.
- Online portal
- Crime in Illinois OnlineData 2016 to 2026.
- What changed
- The PDF archive stops at 2021. From 2022 the Crime in Illinois figures are published through the portal. 2016-2020 data were migrated into the NIBRS repository and may not match the old reports.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Illinois sources
3 sources
- Crime in Illinois ReportsState · IL
Illinois State Police · Incidents, Arrests, Hate crime · pdf, html · annual
Illinois State Police runs the state UCR/NIBRS program.
Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts · Courts · pdf, dashboard · annual
County (102): felony, misdemeanor, DUI filed, disposed. PDF 2001-2023; Power BI 2018 on.
Illinois Office of Statewide Pretrial Services · Bail, Courts · dashboard · continuous
Power BI dashboard for about 75 OSPS counties since the Pretrial Fairness Act (2023-09-18); links county dashboards for Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, Winnebago. No downloads or judge field found.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.