An Illinois appellate court has upheld Mundelein’s decision not to give a business forced out of the village all the moving expenses it had sought.

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Daily Herald

A woman sentenced to 55 years in prison for stabbing an elderly couple to death in Algonquin is asking for her sentence to be vacated after claiming she was coerced into the plea deal.

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Lake & McHenry County Scanner

Illinois state lawmakers could help many survivors of gun violence by passing plans this year to re-open cold cases and provide more transparency on homicide investigations.

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WAND

A coalition of real estate groups took one last swing Monday at knocking a measure that would give the Chicago City Council the power to hike taxes on the sales of properties worth $1 million or more to fight homelessness off the March 19 ballot.

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A Refined Way To Protect Noncitizen Workers

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Celeste Antoinette Niemann

 As Sebastian Wright Garcia explains in his article, “A Refined Way To Protect Noncitizen Workers,” in the March Illinois Bar Journal, the Biden administration in 2023 formalized a program to prioritize noncitizen labor protections and to prosecute employers who violate labor and employment laws. To encourage the help of undocumented noncitizens in these cases, Wright Garcia notes, the administration began to implement a new guidance called Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement to promote the fair execution of labor laws.

The Illinois Supreme Court will leave the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield behind for a day and “ride the circuit” to hear oral arguments at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on March 21.

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The Bar News

Women enter law at comparable rates to men. Yet they occupy only a small portion of leadership roles at law firms and exit the profession at higher rates than men.

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ABA Journal

A California man cheated two Chicago area casinos out of $219,000, officials said Friday.

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CWB Chicago

One year after Chicago U.S. Attorney John Lausch stepped down, the caustic political landscape in Washington has left the high-profile position in limbo with little sign of the logjam breaking anytime soon.

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Chicago Tribune