Friday, May 22, 2026
U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros made the highly unusual announcement Thursday, hours after a closed-door meeting was held about redactions made by prosecutors to a set of grand jury transcripts. The Operation Midway Blitz case has now become the most controversial prosecution of Boutros’ 14-month tenure.
As lawmakers race toward an adjournment deadline later this month, they are entering the final stretch of the spring session by advancing legislation focused on affordability, health care access, and labor protections.
Ruling vindicates Eileen O’Neill Burke’s stance that state’s attorney lacks legal authority.
Only about one in three instances of sexual violence are reported to law enforcement, and the majority of them fail to lead to a prosecution and conviction, survivor advocates say.
Amazon has turned aside another attempt to use Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law to extract a potentially big payout from the company, after a federal appeals court again shut down a class action lawsuit over claims Illinois' residents voices were allegedly wrongly recorded when financial services firm John Hancock used Amazon Web Services and another company to verify customers' identities over the phone.
A lawsuit that prompted the closure of the Mary Davis Home Juvenile Detention Center in Galesburg has been dropped two months after the center shut down.