Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis and the Illinois Supreme Court announced an order entered to help the court system implement the pretrial release provisions of the SAFE-T Act, which goes into effect on September 18, 2023.

While U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn awaits a Seventh Circuit decision on his injunction against Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s weapon ban law, he tackles a claim that owners won’t know how to comply due to vagueness.

A pair of animal rights groups have filed a lawsuit against Boone County, accusing county officials of ignoring acts of animal cruelty at private rodeos.

An Illinois appellate court has sided with a former Bloomington police officer against the city's pension board, which disputed the officer's contention that he was injured in the line of duty.

In 2018, the Illinois attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against the hotel for violating environmental laws for allegedly polluting the Chicago River.

Exoneree Herman Williams tearfully thanked attorneys from the Illinois Innocence Project during a recent press conference to announce his lawsuit against members of a police major crime task force and Lake County officials he says were responsible for his wrongful conviction for the 1993 murder of his ex-wife and his nearly three-decade prison stay.

Waiving his right to counsel, Joshua D. Livingston will now represent himself in the state's cases against him involving charges of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Office contends the inspector general in Joliet has no power to file a lawsuit, such as the one he filed about five months ago for investigation records from the Illinois State Police.

There are currently 30,000 employees in the state of Illinois who work in the multi-billion-dollar cannabis industry. Yet for people of color, positions at the very top of the booming business are all too often out of reach. With the passage of the Safe Banking Act, federal lawmakers could level the playing field.