The 50-page complaint filed Sept. 29 listed out instances in which some customers had their energy costs tripled; on average, the company’s rates were nearly double those offered by ComEd in 2020.

Prosecutors are fighting against the release of a Joliet teen who is charged with shooting another teen who was playing basketball with other youths last year outside an elementary school.

When Rock Island County judges rule on whether to release defendants under the Pretrial Fairness Act, their word is not necessarily the last.

The Office of Justice Programs announced five Metro East entities as recipients for a combined $1.4 million in federal funding to support local public safety and community justice efforts.

Eastern Illinois University has hired a Bloomington law firm to assist with its investigation of hazing involving the men’s swimming team.

A Navy veteran who went from being a civil lawyer in a small Champaign firm to making his mark on the federal judiciary is being fondly remembered as a lover of the law with a sharp mind, a sharp wit and a willingness to share his knowledge with young attorneys.

A terms of service agreement — that long list of legalese that most people ignore — could cost Samsung millions of dollars in a mass arbitration action over the Illinois biometric privacy law.

A former Joliet City Council member is appealing the dismissal of his defamation claim against the city’s inspector general.

In 2016, Illinois passed what would become the first in a series of laws shoring up reproductive rights in the state. That law altered Illinois’ 1970s-era Health Care Right of Conscience Act – a statute passed in the wake of the Roe decision to shield health care providers from liability if they have religious objections to abortion.