Families impacted by ICE raids denounce Trump administration’s arrests, file emergency motion

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unlawfully arrested and violated the rights of 21 immigrants and a U.S. citizen during raids in the Chicago area and other Midwestern states during the first days of the second Trump administration, advocates and attorneys said Monday.

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Chicago Tribune

Prisoner Review Board sued for negligence a year after released prisoner killed Chicago boy

The family of an 11-year-old Chicago boy murdered last year by his mother’s ex-boyfriend the day after he was released from prison is suing the state — including the embattled Prisoner Review Board and Illinois Department of Corrections— for negligence.

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NPR Illinois

Did You Notice?

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Kelsey Jo Burge

In his March Illinois Bar Journal article, “Did You Notice,” William G. Beatty outlines the usefulness of breach of warranty actions to provide sellers the opportunity to: 1) cure defects, minimize damages, and improve products; 2) protect the seller’s ability to investigate a breach and to gather evidence; and 3) encourage negotiations and settlement. Beatty notes the absence of such notice from buyer to seller is not an affirmative defense that the seller must assert in the answer to the plaintiff’s complaint alleging breach of warranty.

Bankruptcy Judge Positions in the Northern District of Illinois

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Kelsey Jo Burge

The Judicial Council of the Seventh Circuit seeks applications from all qualified applicants
to fill up to three positions as a bankruptcy judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Northern District of Illinois with a duty station in Chicago, Illinois. The positions will be available
in early 2026. Applicants must be willing to travel to other locations in the Seventh Circuit to
handle cases as need arises. The term of office is 14 years, and the current salary is $227,608.

Illinois AG settles lawsuit against company that published personal information about legions of voters

A publishing company sued by Democratic Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul for improperly publicizing dates of birth and home addresses for hundreds of thousands of voters has settled the case without admitting criminal wrongdoing.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Ethics advocate: ‘If you want to be a legislator, you can't be a lobbyist, period’

Two recently introduced bills seeking to change lobbying regulations are sitting in committee awaiting advancement.

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Advantage News

Liberty Justice Center files lawsuits against public-sector unions over employee rights

More than six years after the Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. AFSCME, government employees are still engaged in legal battles with public-sector unions over their rights. The Liberty Justice Center has filed three lawsuits on behalf of government workers against their respective unions.

From: 
Legal Newsline

'Untouchable' Springfield area theatre, choir director sentenced on federal charges

A Menard County man who was a theatre director was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison last week for a multitude of charges, including sexual exploitation of a child and distribution and possession of child pornography.

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The State Journal-Register

'Where's my justice?' Slim odds of an arrest when someone is shot and wounded in Chicago, Sun-Times finds

If you’re among more than 19,000 people wounded by gunfire since 2018, the chances that anyone will be charged with shooting you are only about 6%.

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Chicago Sun-Times