Admission of the will that mysteriously surfaced was not the ‘final word on validity,’ a Cook County judge said, leaving hope for distant relatives who had expected a share of Joseph Stancak’s millions.

Firearm owners in Illinois will have to wait at least another month before knowing exactly what items they must register with the Illinois State Police under the state’s assault weapons ban, even as the deadline for submitting those registrations is less than three weeks away.

The Sangamon County Jail's average daily census has dropped by one-third since cash bail was eliminated in Illinois, crime rates haven't spiked, and the system providing more information to judges before they make decisions on whether to release defendants before trial is running smoothly.

Burke’s defense attorneys made good on their promise to call Solis to testify, forcing him out into the open nearly five years after the Chicago Sun-Times revealed his cooperation with the feds in January 2019.

The woman who brought a class action over Ricola cough drops was happy with the product for 20 years until she met a lawyer through an ad on Facebook.

An appeals court finds a Livingston County judge must abide by Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act even though she’s strongly opposed to ending the cash bond system for people awaiting trial.