A bill heading to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk is aimed at protecting local restaurants from third-party vendors that buy and resell reservations, which proponents say can lead to costly no-shows and consumer fraud.

Despite a federal judge's short-lived injunction, blocking the state of Illinois from enforcing its ban on so-called "assault weapons" for a week, Illinois gun owners still couldn't legally purchase and register firearms or accessories banned by the law during the time the injunction was in effect, a state appeals panel has ruled.

At least seven lawsuits are challenging the levies, the centerpiece of Trump’s trade policy. Trump has said he has the power to act because the country’s trade deficits amount to a national emergency.

A bottle of Wite-Out followed Winnebago County Sheriff Gary Caruana earlier in his career. “When I was a road deputy, we’d take all kinds of reports,” recounted Caruana. “We’re sitting alongside of the street writing reports, and I remember we’d make a mistake, we had to Wite-Out eight sheets or something.”

Illinois legislators on Wednesday passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior at school, ending a practice that harmed students across the state.

Jacqueline Villasenor pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 shooting death of her husband and fellow Chicago police officer, German Villasenor.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following statement after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block LLP is unconstitutional and entered a permanent injunction blocking the administration from enforcing the order.

The list of legal perks is growing for one of El Chapo’s sons, who is being prosecuted on federal charges in Chicago.