A Springfield ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson has introduced a measure that could help pave the way for Chicago to legalize the kind of video poker and slot machines that have proliferated at bars and restaurants across the state over the past decade.

Alan Beaman will continue his efforts to educate police recruits about the harm done to innocent people ensnared by wrongful convictions, as he moves on with his life after reaching a $5.4 million settlement with the Town of Normal and three former officers implicated in sending him to prison for a crime he did not commit.

A man charged with four Class X felonies in connection with an armed encounter in December 2022 in an Illinois College dormitory has been ruled fit for trial after originally being deemed unfit.

Christie Clinic is claiming that the state’s new fertility fraud law is unconstitutional as part of its efforts to dismiss a claim that it is liable for a case of fertility fraud allegedly perpetrated by one of its doctors 51 years ago.

A federal judge in Puerto Rico last week told a politically connected former state contractor that if he wants to sue for defamation against the people who’ve accused him of defrauding the State of Illinois, he’ll have to do so in an Illinois courtroom.

 A Barry man pled guilty to two counts of child pornography on March 26 and was sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.