Judge Sholar is being assigned to fill a newly created judicial seat in the Fifth Appellate District. The assignment is effective March 1, 2024, and will continue until further order of the Court.

Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Yolanda Harris Sayre as a Circuit Judge in the 5th Subcircuit of Cook County.

A bid to block former President Donald Trump from Illinois’ March 19 primary ballot has moved to state court, where challengers to the likely 2024 Republican nominee are hoping to move quickly in a case expected to make its way to the Illinois Supreme Court.

The Family Farm Preservation Act is in the works with Illinois lawmakers who hope to protect the state’s main source of income. The Act would reevaluate the burden of estate taxes, by taxing farmers based on agricultural use, rather than what their land is worth if it were sold for development.

As Illinois seeks to pass its own online privacy law, it should avoid copying the inadequate laws passed in 14 states that were weakened by tech-industry lobbying, a consumer advocate group said in a report Thursday.

Only 16% of Americans rate lawyers’ honesty and ethical standards as "high" or "very high," according to a Gallup poll taken in December. The percentage has decreased since 2022, when 21% of Americans said lawyers had high or very high honesty and ethical standards, and since 2019, when the percentage was 22%, according to a Jan. 22 press release with results of Gallup’s 2023 Honesty and Ethics poll.

Marvin Williford was convicted of a 2000 attack on Delwin Foxworth. Later, DNA on the weapon was linked to an unidentified man whose DNA was recovered from 11-year-old Holly Staker, who was raped and killed in 1992 in Waukegan. Williford’s DNA wasn’t on that weapon, his lawyers say.

The bipartisan board said they couldn’t take up the question of whether Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 barred him from running.