Authorities say a 71-year-old Illinois man has been charged with a hate crime, accused of fatally stabbing a young boy and seriously wounded a woman because of their Islamic faith and the Israel-Hamas war.

The Illinois Attorney General’s office has a pending lawsuit filed against CWLP, alleging that in 2021, the company released 700 tons of coal ash into the environment.

Dozens of people had a chance to improve their lives Friday by removing old criminal offenses from their records.

Insults, shouting, shoving, inappropriate text messages and belittling criticism — just some of the behaviors within the legal profession that attorney Erika Harold said she is aiming to curb.

The McHenry County state’s attorney has responded to the “Marijuana Moms,” a group of former and current lawmakers, after they called him out for forcing cannabis dispensaries to display new health warnings.

A consolidated case challenging Illinois’ gun and magazine ban is pending in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Second Amendment grounds.

Shamond Butler, now 20, has the cognitive capability of a 2-year-old because of brain damage he suffered during birth, his lawyer said.

With the Attorney General's Office providing software for law enforcement to track stolen weapons, Law enforcement agencies across Central Illinois believe the program may cause hiccups with investigations.

Illinois is almost a month into its new pretrial release, i.e. cashless bail, system - and the Kane County Circuit Court is crunching the data and putting it out for all to see.