The decision to release a five-time felon with four pending felony cases, including two violent robberies, on electronic monitoring was not a mistake, Cook County’s chief judge says, even though that man is now accused of going on to murder a Chicago police officer and gravely wounding the fallen officer’s partner.

The Supreme Court says man can sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash.

A hearing in a Whiteside County courtroom could have a ripple effect across Illinois as a lawyer challenges the jury pool in the case of Michael Cover.

All three acted “with profound malice, fabricating a case, suppressing evidence, and intentionally using false testimony” to destroy the Council member’s career, said Craig D. Tobin, Gardiner’s lawyer.

With just two weeks left in the spring legislative session, Illinois Senate Democrats introduced an eight-bill package aimed at regulating some uses of artificial intelligence after a lack of federal action on the issue.

Trust in U.S. elections is eroding. Between skepticism about redistricting, fear about immigration agents at the polls, and unproven claims about widespread election fraud, Americans are losing confidence in the accuracy and security of their elections.

Illinois lawmakers are mulling legislation that would require chronic speeders to install speed-limiting devices on their vehicles. Under provisions of House Bill 4948, currently being debated in Senate committee, an “Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA)” program would be implemented in the state beginning in 2028, targeting so-called “super-speeders.”

Republican state lawmakers want to reform Illinois property taxes by giving a property tax exemption to seniors, and increasing property taxes for wind and solar. They also introduced bills to make it easier for people older than 65 to get a homestead exemption, and allow property tax assessments to be published online.

Since his conviction on corruption charges and a brief prison stint that followed, politicians have surely kept their distance, at least publicly, from former Chicago Ald. Edward M. Burke.