Friday, October 2, 2026
Former two-term 2nd Ward Ald. Bob Fioretti has a challenge on his hands in his run against Kwame Raoul, the Democratic incumbent Illinois attorney general since 2019, who won his last two elections by a more than 11-point margin.
Ten nonprofits, including Housing Action Illinois, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for attempting to claw back funding allocated for housing counseling services.
A man convicted in a fatal DUI crash is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to review his case, arguing that cannabis test results used in his prosecution came from a University of Illinois Chicago laboratory whose testing practices were later called into question.
A group of potentially thousands of truck drivers can move ahead with a class action lawsuit accusing railroad operator Union Pacific of scanning their fingerprints, allegedly in violation of Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law, after a federal appeals panel agreed Union Pacific's contracts with Metra and other taxpayer-funded units of Illinois government don't protect it from a potentially big payout.
On September 17, Illinois’ Constitution Day, a coalition of legal justice reform advocates, allies, and community members impacted by extreme sentencing held a rally outside the Office of Governor JB Pritzker.