Friday, September 11, 2026
A federal judge on Thursday declined to block Illinois’ new “medical aid in dying” law from going into effect this weekend, clearing the way for terminally ill adults to legally seek life-ending medication from physicians.
A successful legislative push embraced by Gov. JB Pritzker means the state’s male-dominated construction industry soon will have to make new job-site accommodations to employees who lactate and menstruate. Illinois is the second state with such a mandate.
The Better Government Association and DuPage County–based nonprofit Radical Hospitality Ministries are suing the Illinois state judiciary for failing to comply with a legal obligation to collect and publish data about people awaiting trial.
Union County State's Attorney Tyler Tripp has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Illinois Department of Human Services from closing portions of the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna.
An Illinois woman accused of killing her 2-year-old son also planned to poison her husband and believed she had killed her other children, prosecutors said in court this week.