Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Federal prosecutors will probe whether Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson improperly hired city employees because they are Black, the Trump administration announced Monday.
A federal judge in Chicago has granted the government’s motion to dismiss pending client-theft charges against disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi in Illinois following his wire fraud conviction in California.
A growing number of state lawmakers are moving to repeal a 2015 Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott Israel to protest its policies toward Palestinians.
The future of a state-funded program to increase the diversity of faculty at colleges and universities in Illinois is in doubt as the Trump administration continues to pressure higher education to abandon DEI values.
A suburban man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for illegally possessing multiple guns and trafficking fentanyl and other drugs, federal prosecutors said.