The numbers are at a nearly 40-year low, but experts say they could rise again as defendants now deemed too risky to release remain locked up.

After hearing more than two hours of speakers speak respectfully on both sides of the sanctuary city for the unborn ordinance, debate among members of the Quincy City Council got a little heated Monday night before they voted 7-5 against it.

A bill that extends hunting and fishing licenses in Illinois has been signed into law.

While generative artificial intelligence will transform legal work, there are key differences in how legal professionals and clients are thinking about AI, with clients more optimistic about the tech, according to Clio’s eighth annual Legal Trends Report, which Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton introduced Monday.

Roosevelt Myles returned to Chicago last weekend to file a federal lawsuit against eight police officers and the city before speaking to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, in whose office prosecutors tried to block the wrongfully convicted man from being exonerated for a murder committed 30 years ago.

Chicago became the largest U.S. city to independently phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers on Friday, a step celebrity chef Rick Bayless said the city needed to take “for the greater good.”

Jeffrey McKinley will replace Judge James Conway as Resident Circuit Judge in Mercer County. Conway retired this summer after 21 years.

Nearly a month after Mayor Brandon Johnson announced plans to move the thousands of migrants being forced to sleep on the floor of police stations and at the city’s airports into large tents, Chicago officials have yet to identify a location to build what they call “winterized base camps.”