Friday, November 13, 2026
Under Karina’s Law, domestic violence victims can get a search warrant for the police to go after their abusers’ firearms. But the Chicago police have served just three of the 91 warrants issued since the law took effect last year, the Sun-Times found.
Outgoing DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek’s request for an attorney to take her legal fight with the county to the Illinois Supreme Court has been denied.
Metro east officer Jerame Simmons Jr. was the first officer to lose his badge under a new discretionary decertification process after the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board alleged he didn’t have a valid high school diploma and lied about it on job applications at police departments.
Retail groups sued two federal regulators on Thursday, hoping to revive Illinois' embattled efforts to ban certain credit card interchange fees, also known as "swipe fees."
A federal judge has tossed an attempt by a library board member in troubled suburban Dolton to sue the library district she helps lead for allegedly mistreating her after she got into a physical fight with a library district business manager at a library district Christmas party.