Six months ago, the Internal Revenue Service filed a lien against a Cook County judge and her husband, seeking to collect income taxes dating to 2018, the year she was re-elected.
New legislation in Springfield backed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker would require a lawyer for young people under 18 during a police interrogation, an expansion of juvenile rights after video obtained by WBEZ showed a suburban Chicago detective extracting a teen’s false confession to a shooting.
Retail theft prosecution and juvenile crime were among the topics retired Illinois Appellate Court Judge Eileen O’Neill Burke and former Cook County prosecutor Clayton Harris III addressed during the Democratic primary candidate debate for Cook County State’s Attorney.
Shelly Taylor Page, law professor and director of experiential learning presented on how to identity and prevent human trafficking in Southern Illinois on Wednesday at John A. Logan College.
On what was supposed to be the third morning of a weeklong corruption trial of former State Sen. Sam McCann, the onetime third-party candidate for governor instead videoconferenced into U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless’ courtroom from his hospital bed.
A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that a case seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the March 19 Republican primary ballot in Illinois will move forward independently of a similar case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Actor Jussie Smollett has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to intervene in his yearslong legal battle stemming from charges that he staged a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lied about it to Chicago police.
There are two key parts to the legislation. The first allows families with unsolved homicide cases over three years old to request a new review of the case. The second requires the Chicago Police Department to publish more related data.
