It’s been a month since the jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial last heard the ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Shannon P. O’Malley narrowly lost his bid for reelection to the bench, securing 57.9% of the vote, mere margins away from the 60% vote requirement to keep his seat.

A health care provider did not violate the constitutional and statutory rights of a nurse when it fired her for refusing to either get a COVID-19 vaccine or submit to weekly testing for the virus, a ...

The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica ...

Chicago-based firms Romanucci & Blandin and Washington Law Group were part of a trial team that obtained a $98.6 million verdict in Texas after a jury ruled in favor of the family of a man fatally ...

Chicago businessman Juan Ochoa had heard little more than crickets in the six months since then-Illinois House Speaker ...

If there is any single songwriter who has provided the soundtrack for our lives, it must be Neil Diamond, the self-described “Jewish Elvis” who gave us a long string of hits including “America,” ...

Where defendant has been acquitted of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon with prior felony stipulated, issue preclusion bars prosecution for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

The family of a man who died as a result of falling into a quarry cannot sue the property owner for premises liability, a state appellate panel held. Alexander Shewey, 24, entered an unfenced area of ...

Bonnie M. Wheaton believes in thinking outside the box. As chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit, she plans to take that approach during her three-year term as the court’s leader with goals to ...

The Illinois Supreme Court published nearly a dozen opinions Thursday, including a ruling on a challenge to the interpretation of the Illinois Citizen Participation Act in a defamation suit against ...

Thursday to vacate Jussie Smollett’s conviction for staging and falsely reporting a homophobic hate crime.The high court’s decision reversed a Cook County jury verdict and a judge’s sentence of ...