A week into the rollout of the Pretrial Fairness Act that eliminated cash bail in Illinois, law enforcement and prosecutors in Central Illinois say it’s going “as expected.”

A Park Ridge real estate developer has been convicted of participating in a conspiracy that embezzled millions of dollars from the failed Washington Federal Bank for Savings, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Northern Illinois announced Monday.

Two nurses in the Chicagoland area believe their hospitals have violated the state's biometric privacy law. Now, all eyes are on the Illinois Supreme Court to see how a future ruling with impact the health care and business industry.

The rollout of Illinois’ new, cashless, detention standards has been happening largely as Rock Island County court officials expected, though its long-term impacts remain to be seen.

Judge Roger Thomson called Bradley Yohn “the most reprehensible person ever before me” during his career in law before sentencing him on Monday afternoon to 130 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

As the Southern Illinois University School of Law enters its second half-century, it celebrates a sizeable, diverse class of first-year students, and its mission of serving the public good established with the first class in 1973 remains critical.

In Springfield last week, the medical industry went to court. The Illinois Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of class action suits brought by two suburban nurses, Lucille Mosby and Yana Mazya, who allege their employers violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, a landmark 2008 law that gives Illinois residents the ability to sue companies that misuse biometric data, such as fingerprints or facial scans.