Legal advocacy groups sounded alarms on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new actions against lawyers and law firms that bring immigration lawsuits and other cases against the government that he deems unethical.

The state’s Department of Children and Family Services is legally required to make the reports public after examining what went wrong but did not in thousands of instances.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Friday to enhance the quality of public drinking water in Illinois. This law will require the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to conduct statewide samplings of certain community water supplies to assess the levels of dangerous chemicals.

An insurance company is suing the former finance director of WTVP-TV and the estate of the station's former CEO.

Prestige Feed Products’ case against the village of Mount Prospect appears on track for a September trial date. Last week, attorneys for the animal feed producer tried to add civil rights claims against three village officials. The move could have delayed the start of the trial.

The Illinois Supreme Court announced the filing of lawyer disciplinary orders on March 20, 2025. Sanctions were imposed because the lawyers engaged in professional misconduct by violating state ethics law.

President Donald Trump on Thursday rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent international law firm after it pledged to review its hiring practices and to provide tens of millions of dollars in free legal services to support certain White House initiatives.

Two judges and a former state’s attorney are among the 11 applicants for the circuit judgeship vacated by Cynthia M. Raccuglia, who retired recently because of medical issues.