Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs is spearheading an effort to help families put leftover college savings funds into retirement plans. The change could happen quickly in Illinois thanks to action by the federal government.

A federal judge ruled that portions of a civil rights lawsuit alleging Geneva District 304 officials ignored relentless bullying of a seventh grade boy with autism can continue, unless the parties agree to a settlement by May 29.

When the roof of the Apollo Theatre came crashing down on an audience of heavy metal concertgoers, it broke backs, split open heads, fractured ribs, shattered legs, severed a man's ear and took the life of Fred Livingston Jr., 51.

Justice Lisa Holder White of the Supreme Court of Illinois has begun an application process for an At-Large Circuit Judge vacancy in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.

A new report shares stories from women who were pregnant while in county jails across Illinois. Researchers also learned that a quarter of county jails do not have written policies on how to care for people who are pregnant or postpartum.

A state parole board member resigned Monday after recommending the release of a man who a day later attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son while he tried to protect her, according to authorities.

A legal group founded by Stephen Miller, a former senior policy adviser in the Trump White House, has declared victory after two federal judges in Illinois rescinded polices promoting what the group calls “oral-argument affirmative action.”

Seventeenth Circuit Judicial Court judges have chosen Heidi Ruckman-Agustsson as an associate judge to succeed retiring Associate Judge Randy Wilt.