A man facing deportation over a decades-old guilty plea for drug possession should have his plea vacated, a state appellate panel ruled.A panel of the 1st District Appellate Court ruled that ...

Where defendant is convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault, the 10-year enhancement for wielding a non-firearm object as a weapon is unconstitutional and void ab initio.The 4th District ...

The former chief lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison has spent the last week telling a federal jury how he bent over backward to accommodate hiring requests from former Illinois House ...

Two brothers who allege a coroner kept their murdered sister’s skull rather than turning it over with the rest of her remains failed to adequately state a claim for a violation of their right to due ...

A former Cook County assistant state’s attorney is not entitled to absolute immunity in a lawsuit alleging he played a role in wrongfully convicting a man for murder.Jose Cruz claims that he was ...

Illinois will receive a $40 million share of a $1.4 billion bipartisan national settlement with Kroger over the grocery chain ...

Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...

Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration.

Where district court did not err in relying on photos from pole camera in defendant’s sentencing hearing because defendant had access to photos for more than two years before hearing.

The widow of a Chicago police officer cannot sue the city of Chicago over her husband’s death from allegedly contracting COVID-19 while on the job, a federal judge held.

CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on ...

A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois’ assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued an order ...