A number of municipalities, including Champaign and Urbana, are planning to pool their funds to pay for an attorney to intervene in the Illinois American Water Company’s proposed rate increase.

For nearly three decades, Sean Tyler insisted he was innocent of killing a 10-year-old boy. A judge finally agreed with him this week.

Organizers of a referendum from one county asking downstate voters if they want to form a new Illinois — separate from Chicago — are hoping it could appear on the November 5th ballot this year. The Madison County Board’s Government Relations Committee approved the referendum with a 6-1 vote. It will now go to the full county board for consideration.

A former assistant nursing director at a Crystal Lake rehab center has been sentenced to two years in prison on federal charges of tampering with medication prescribed to patients.

The Illinois House Judiciary-Criminal Committee approved plans Thursday to help re-open cold cases and provide more transparency on homicide investigations.

Our panel of leading appellate attorneys reviews the opinions handed down Thursday, April 4, 2024, by the Illinois Supreme Court. 

Studies have associated women using these products regularly with having a higher risk of getting certain cancers. The industry maintains its products are safe.

Illinois U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled that prohibiting illegal immigrants from possessing firearms is a violation of the Second Amendment.