A Chicago man filed a lawsuit against the City of Chicago, a Chicago police detective and several officers after being charged in the death of a CFD firefighter.

A corruption-busting prosecutor with a 20-year track record of winning major cases will step down from his job with the United States attorney in Chicago.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday moved to challenge a law recently enacted in Democratic-led Illinois that seeks to encourage greater diversity in the nonprofit sector by requiring charitable organizations to publicly report on the race, gender and sexual orientation of their governing bodies.

A couple renting an apartment from Marco Antonio Contreras sued him in 2022 under the Illinois Immigrant Tenant Protection Act, which protects tenants from discrimination or harassment based on their immigration status.

The Trump administration has stopped reimbursing Illinois for a program designed to help farmers and supply fresh food to Illinois food banks. The Illinois Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that changes to federal funding mean Illinois is missing reimbursements for costs for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, or LFPA, and can no longer run the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program, or RFSI.

A Cook County judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging a company violated the terms of a lucrative state contract in ways that included failing to inform the state that a pair of political insiders profited from the deal.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has been in Washington DC since Sunday preparing for a high stakes congressional hearing Wednesday before a GOP-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is prepping with a team from City Hall and a DC law firm.

Robert Crimo III, the man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Highland Park in 2022 that left seven people dead and prompted the passage of a ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines in Illinois, pleaded guilty Monday to all charges stemming from that shooting.

U.S. Rep. Mike Bost has announced the application process for candidates interested in serving as the next U.S. Attorney or U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois.