A new professional licensing system is coming to Illinois, thanks to a recent state law signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker.

The Illinois Supreme Court amended its policy on access for people with disabilities. The change requires all Illinois courts to update their court disability coordinator contact information and ensure every court in the state has one to provide accommodations.

A pilot program announced by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is thought to be the first in the nation offered to inmates at the county jail level.

As with any new year, changes are in store. And for Illinois, new rules and regulations change the Prairie State each year. For 2024, laws range from impacting drinking fountains to a minimum paid leave all employees acquire, Illinois soon receives numerous developments.

A federal court has prohibited the City of Springfield from enforcing a local zoning ordinance which banned people living with disabilities from living in homes within 600 feet of one another if such a home has five or less residents.

The measure, House Bill 2473, does not allow new large-scale power generation facilities like the six plants that are already operational in the state, but rather allows for new smaller-scale emergent technology.

John Billis hasn't gotten a parking citation, let alone a traffic ticket, in about 50 years, he says. So why, Billis wonders, must he take a driving test to renew his license upon turning 79?

On November 30, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously held that an exclusion in the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act applies to healthcare workers where their biometric information is collected, used, or stored in the course of providing medical services.

A judge in Chicago overturned a murder conviction Tuesday after defense lawyers produced evidence that an eyewitness who testified during the 2014 trial was legally blind.