Daily Legal News Archive

Thursday, August 27, 2026

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and advocates sounded an alarm Wednesday over what they described as systemic due-process violations at Chicago’s downtown immigration court, calling a strategy to speed up their cases and issue deportation orders to unaccompanied minors a “mockery of the justice system.”

From: 
Chicago Sun-Times

New rules governing who can use electronic bikes and scooters, including where and how fast they go, will go into effect next year following Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature on Wednesday.

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Belleville News-Democrat

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Wednesday he has joined a multistate lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service challenging new rules that purport to give it authority to regulate mail-in voting in federal elections.

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Capitol News Illinois

It’s been exactly a month of what one global cyber expert calls “complete chaos” in the public water industry, and now we know why.

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NBC 5 Chicago

An 18-year-old man was arrested Tuesday following an approximately three-hour standoff in Zion after police identified him as a suspect in a series of alleged armed robberies and attempted vehicular carjackings reported over the weekend.

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Country Herald