An Illinois appeals court will hear oral arguments Tuesday that the panel should toss Jussie Smollett's convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself and then lying about it to Chicago police.

Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolishes cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, will take effect Sept. 18, making Illinois the first state to end cash bail and a testing ground for whether — and how — it works on a large scale.

Judge Victoria Rossetti had said she would set a trial date for Robert E. Crimo III, who’s accused of killing seven people and wounding 48 others at last year’s parade. But prosecutors on Monday, the first hearing in the case since May, asked for three more months to finish gathering evidence, including a pending FBI report and chain of custody paperwork.

The bench trial for two former DCFS caseworkers charged in connection with the murder of a five-year-old boy in McHenry County will continue Tuesday morning.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court is continuing to work on ethics issues, and he is “hopeful there will be some concrete steps.”

Migrant advocates worry about all the unanswered questions in the mayor’s proposed plan to move migrants from Chicago police stations to tent shelters.

The sun was shining brightly on an unseasonably cool late summer day when Maja Kuzcynski of Romeoville and Lindsay Rastgoo stepped out of their canoes at Alexander County’s Horseshoe Lake. The duo, law students in Southern Illinois University’s Sheila Simon’s Property 1 class, had spent about an hour gliding the mirror-like surface of the lake, navigating the narrow passages between the towering cypress and tupelo trees.

Justice Lisa Holder White of the Supreme Court of Illinois has announced the formation of a judicial screening committee for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit.

Undeterred by Cook County Democrats’ decision to back appointed incumbent Justice Joy Cunningham in next year’s primary for a full term on the Illinois Supreme Court, some Latino leaders are forging ahead with an effort to elect a member of their community to the state’s highest bench.