Thursday, September 10, 2026
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services plans to comply with a request for records about employees who were responsible for monitoring a teenage girl who died in foster care.
For four days, a Chicago man emailed the city’s Office of Inspector General warning that he planned to kill his neighbor. On the fifth day, according to prosecutors, he did. And, incredibly, it happened almost a year after Chicago police failed to arrest him for allegedly shooting another neighbor outside the same South Side two-flat.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule — a move that would strip protections from more than 44 million acres of national forest land nationwide.
A Japanese brake manufacturer must face an Illinois lawsuit alleging that asbestos in its products caused a dealership worker’s son to develop fatal mesothelioma, an Illinois appeals court ruled.
Illinois’ End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act, which Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law in December, is set to take effect Saturday. It would let doctors prescribe medication to help terminally ill patients end their lives.