The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office is under investigation by the U. S. Department of Justice for civil rights violations, but the probe may go beyond the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey.

An attorney who filed frivolous lawsuits against the village of Tinley Park and one of its attorneys should be suspended for five months, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and ...

A job applicant who alleges a snack-food manufacturer withdrew a conditional offer of employment because he is a recovering heroin addict has stated a case for a violation of the Americans with ...

Bonnie M. Wheaton believes in thinking outside the box. As chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit, she plans to take that approach during her three-year term as the court’s leader with goals to ...

It was a sunny and mild spring afternoon in May 2019 when roughly 100 FBI agents were dispatched to the homes — and one office — of eight allies to then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

During Donald Trump’s first term as president, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly spent much of their time enacting laws and policies in direct opposition to the ...

A church must face a wrongful death lawsuit related to the accidental shooting of a teenage boy at one of its properties, a state appellate panel held.

A clarification to Illinois’ biometric data privacy law made by state lawmakers earlier this year limits the size of damages that can be claimed in lawsuits over Biometric Information Privacy Act ...

The Supreme Court recently heard the Facebook case on risk factors and public disclosures. Last week, it was looking at investors and public companies again, this time with Nvidia and a proposed class ...

A Cook County jury awarded $20 million to a Skokie man who fell into a coma as a result of allegedly negligent medical care.

Where counsel failed to file written consent on behalf of plaintiffs in a collective action, there were no valid parties to appeal and it was dismissed.

An Illinois Senate committee hit pause on a bill to ban carbon sequestration injections near aquifers after more than an hour of debate Wednesday.