Anticipating substantial loans to finance their education, the vast majority—84%—of first-year law students in 2024 said cost was a driving factor for choosing a law school, according to a new study by the Law School Admission Council.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan should spend more than 12 years behind bars, federal prosecutors say.

A bill that seeks to control the rising cost of prescription drugs while also offering financial help for many small, independent pharmacies in Illinois cleared the General Assembly on Saturday and will soon be sent to Gov. JB Pritzker for his signature.

Democratic members of the General Assembly had only seven minutes to spare before a key constitutional deadline to pass a spending plan.

Legislation requiring all local Illinois law enforcement agencies to participate in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) eTrace platform that allows law enforcement to submit firearm tracing information for crime guns to the ATF National Tracing Center is heading to Gov. J.B. Pritker’s desk for approval.

The family of an Illinois man who was found dead is suing a hospital after they say he was never supposed to leave its care.

Attorneys general from 16 mostly Democrat-controlled U.S. states, including Illinois and Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday, arguing that some of the federal government's attempts to gut National Science Foundation research programs are illegal.

A grocery retailer can sue their wholesalers to make them pay for allegedly contributing to an E.coli outbreak traced back to contaminated cilantro without having first notified the wholesalers of the "defect," the Illinois Supreme Court ruled, because a product liability lawsuit filed by consumers allegedly harmed by the contaminated food had provided all the notice the wholesalers should have needed.

Andrew Boutros’ appointment by Attorney General Pam Bondi gives him only four months to serve. President Donald Trump could try to appoint someone else. Or federal judges could end up making the call.