Burke’s legal retirement marks a shift from earlier this month, when the state listed him as eligible to practice law despite his federal conviction.

Chicago voters have rejected a one-time real estate tax on properties over $1 million to pay for services for homeless people.

The Supreme Court's decision in 2023 to roll back the Clean Water Act has meant less federal oversight in protecting the country's wetlands. Illinois does not have a standalone program, and one organization hopes state legislators will pass measures to change this.

The City of Springfield has approved a settlement in a complaint filed in 2020 over the denial of gender-affirming health care to a former city employee. 

Our panel of leading appellate attorneys reviews the three civil and six criminal opinions handed down Thursday, March 21, 2024, by the Illinois Supreme Court. 

The Washington Supreme Court has adopted alternative pathways to a law license, becoming the second state to do so in a little more than four months.

A Washington County judge has declared a Belleville man unfit to stand trial for his alleged role in a shooting death.

Students from across Northern Illinois expressed gratitude that the Supreme Court of Illinois justices were real. "They kind of seem like foreign entities  – foreign bodies," says Kaya Dreger – a junior at Benedictine University. The political science student shared the "surreal" feeling of seeing the seven justices leap from opinions to reality.