Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Prosecutors on Monday dismissed dozens of felony aggravated battery counts against Robert Crimo III, charged in the fatal shootings of seven people and the wounding of dozens more on July 4, 2022.
The Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee will hear comments on six proposals on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at a public hearing beginning at 10 a.m. at the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, 222 N. LaSalle Street, 13th Floor, in Chicago. All proposals must be approved by the Illinois Supreme Court before they can take effect.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to abortion clinics and limit harassment of patients in a challenge brought by anti-abortion activists who have argued that their free speech rights were being violated.
Drivers who are between 79 and 86 years old would no longer have to take a behind-the-wheel driving test to maintain a driver's license in Illinois under proposed legislation.
A suburban Burr Ridge woman died two days after her son attacked her with a mini sledgehammer, the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office said.