Friday, August 14, 2026
The agency housing the elite Special Prosecution Unit is deeply entangled in Illinois politics and got a legislative ally to write it out of the state’s public records law.
A group of Illinois physicians, a Catholic bishop and a faith-based nursing home have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block portions of Illinois’ new assisted suicide law before it takes effect next month.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services blamed “significant miscommunication within the Department” for missing two court dates and its failure to respond to a lawsuit filed by Capitol News Illinois seeking the release of public records.
The sentencing hearing for an O’Fallon man who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the case of a woman he dropped off dead at a local hospital in 2023 is set for later this month amid conflict-of-interest complaints.
A drug dealer has been sentenced to a combined 28 years in prison for four homicides after victims in McHenry County and other parts of the Chicagoland area died after ingesting fentanyl-laced drugs he sold.