As the former US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald knows a thing or two about prosecuting government officials.

A new state law, recently signed by Gov. JB Pritzker, could eventually ease the workloads for county public defender’s offices, which represent people who can’t afford to hire private lawyers.

The 22nd edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, released in May, includes a new Rule 18.3 for citing output from generative AI. Critics argue that the new rule “is fundamentally flawed in both conception and execution,” LawSites reports.

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s prosecutors are routinely asking judges to keep suspects in jail until trial when they’ve been charged with having a machine gun — mostly handguns converted into automatic weapons.

Federal charges have been filed against a Chicago man accused of forging the signatures of two federal judges in court filings in an attempt to lift restrictions that had been placed on him after several of his civil lawsuits were deemed frivolous.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from enforcing the “Defund Provision” in the recently enacted federal budget reconciliation law.

Mercer County School Board President Bill Smock issued a statement Thursday regarding the arrest of the district’s superintendent and two other employees for allegedly accessing student medical records.

O'Neill Burke announced that prosecutors must now seek pre-trial detention for anyone accused of certain crimes, particularly violent offenses, domestic violence cases and sex offenses or crimes against children.

Some Democratic lawmakers believe Illinois should be the first state to require voting for all eligible residents. A plan in Springfield would treat voting as a civic duty.