An Illinois appellate court has sided with two Coles County criminal defendants who argued, in separate cases, that they were improperly detained under the law that eliminated cash bail across the state in September. 

A new law is helping to return over one thousand remains to Native American tribes across the country.

The unit had a backlog of 2,702 cases in July, which has nearly doubled to 5,116, an official told U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer.

An attempt to block Illinois’ ban on high-power semiautomatic weapons will take more time to resolve.

Jurors will being hearing evidence Friday that was used in 2019 to level criminal charges against Burke in a push against old-school, Chicago-style corruption.

When Chicago area businessman James W. Bracken III was going after a $61.7 million city contract from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration in 2016, he placed a high-ranking city official named William M. Mahon at the top of his list of references.

Andrew D. Purcell, who was disbarred in Missouri in October and has been assigned a case number by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, learned the hard way that lawyers can get into trouble when they claim to be in two places at the same time.

A federal appeals court has ruled for a Louisiana lawyer who alleged that the mandatory state bar association violated his First Amendment rights by spending dues money on speech that is not germane to regulating lawyers or improving legal services.