Daily Legal News Archive

Friday, July 24, 2026

The Joliet Treatment Center, designed to treat people with serious mental illness, repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires despite two deaths, an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ, and the Sun-Times found.

From: 
Chicago Sun-Times

More than two dozen states, including Illinois, on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election and immigration conditions to receive billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.

From: 
ABC 7

Gov. JB Pritzker signed the legislation at Roberts Temple in Bronzeville, where Till’s mother held an open-casket service for her 14-year-old son in 1955..

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NBC 5 Chicago

A first-in-the-nation tax on cryptocurrencies and other digital assets that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed last month is facing a legal challenge from an industry association that argues the law is unconstitutional.

From: 
CPA Practice Advisor

The man serving life in prison without parole for the 1987 murder and rape of 10-year-old Amy Schulz has had another appeal denied seeking a third trial.

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WJBD