The Morgan County Commissioners agreed on Monday to allocate $400,000 from the county’s American Rescue Plan Act funds to renovate the courthouse elevator.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow and Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director John J. Kim  released a statements in response to Will County Circuit Court Judge John C. Anderson’s approval of a consent order entered in People of the State of Illinois v. Aqua Illinois Inc.

Virginia Kendall, a former prosecutor nominated to the bench nearly 20 years ago by President George W. Bush, is set to be sworn in as chief judge of Chicago’s federal court Aug. 1.

A new law allows Illinois school districts to get reimbursed with taxpayer money for sending their troubled students to both public and private special education programs.

After a violent holiday weekend that saw more than 100 people shot, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago-area lawmakers, business leaders and philanthropic groups announced plans Wednesday for long-term investment in violence prevention programs.

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Mary K. O’Brien has been elected as a new member of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. 

Chicago taxpayers have paid more than $35.7 million to defend disgraced former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara in 39 lawsuits alleging he framed people for crimes they did not commit — and there is no end in sight, according to documents obtained by WTTW News.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday that puts new controls on the state’s health insurance industry, including bans on practices companies have used to reduce costs by controlling the amount of health care services a patient receives.

Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced that the Supreme Court Committee on Equality has been renamed as the Supreme Court Committee on Equal Justice and given a new charge.