Wednesday, February 4, 2026
All candidates (outside of Cook County) for Illinois judicial office who are running in the March 17 primary election have been rated by the Illinois State Bar Association Judicial Evaluations Committee, or in a poll of lawyers conducted by the ISBA. The results are now available.
As sweeping changes to the federal Clean Water Act in recent years have weakened protections for wetlands, Illinois has become the first state in the nation to officially recognize a conservation tactic known as rewilding.
A Chicago tax attorney has been indicted by a grand jury for the murder of his wife.
The City of Peoria is asking a judge to stop an upcoming vote from the Illinois Gaming Board as it mulls whether to allow a possible land-based casino in East Peoria.
A former Palatine High School teacher who was fired for posting anti-Black Lives Matter content to her personal Facebook page has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to tell lower courts they were wrong to allow the suburban school district for which she worked to toss her lawsuit because the district's interest in mollifying angry students and community members outweighed the teacher's First Amendment right to speak.