Eileen O’Neill Burke, a retired Illinois Appellate Court judge and a former Cook County assistant state’s attorney, filed more than 13,000 signatures to run as a Democrat for Cook County state’s attorney — the last day candidates had to file petitions for the March primary.

Executive said the Klafter & Burke firm “seemed very disorganized.”

Judge Norma Kauzlarich is expected to issue written rulings by Dec. 18 on a number of motions in the murder trial of a Granite City man charged for the death of Knox County Deputy Nicholas Weist.

A Westmont village worker who drowned to death in an underground water main vault was not properly equipped or trained for working in a confined space, his mother alleges in a lawsuit.

While the country mourns the loss of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, judges in the 17th Judicial Circuit remember the trailblazer and the path she forged for women in law.

Odai Alfayoumi struggled to find words Friday when asked how he is doing a month and a half after the death of his son, Wadee Alfayoumi, the Palestinian 6-year-old boy stabbed to death in Plainfield Township in what police call a hate crime.

A Des Plaines man faces charges alleging he called the DeKalb County State's Attorney's Office more than a dozen times, threatened to commit a school shooting or bombing, threatened to shoot a local circuit judge, and making threats against an Illinois Supreme Court justice and the president.

Our panel of leading appellate attorneys reviews the seven civil and ten criminal opinions handed down Thursday, November 30, 2023, by the Illinois Supreme Court.