Daily Legal News Archive

U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros released an unorthodox five-page report just hours after Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth called for his resignation over the handling of the tainted Broadview prosecution.

An Illinois law giving parents leave from work when their newborn is admitted to special hospital care has taken effect as of June 1.

Lawmakers also expand in-state tuition and amend child care licensing.

When Yadira Escamilla was sent to stay in the basement inside a South Side foster facility she in some ways lost touch with the outside world.

The measure seeks to protect abortion patients in Illinois from out-of-state retaliation.