Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr., assumed the office of Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court effective Sunday, October 26. He will serve a three-year term, succeeding Justice Mary Jane Theis. Justice Neville’s formal installation and swearing-in was held on Friday, Oct. 24, at the Apostolic Faith Church in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.
A white ex-cop charged with murdering an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield area home last year testified Monday that he fired his gun in self-defense, and that his actions “matched the threat level.”
On August 15, 2025, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2487 into law, amending the Illinois Human Rights Act, 775 ILCS 5/7A-102. Among other reforms going into effect on January 1, 2026, the legislation fundamentally changes how the Illinois Department of Human Rights processes charges of discrimination.
The estranged husband of a woman found dead last year in the stairwell of a South Loop high-rise was named in an arrest warrant for murder on Monday, the first anniversary of her death.
A judicial vacancy was announced for Winnebago County in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit.