The agreement is pending approval by the Sangamon County Board at its meeting Tuesday. Massey, 36, was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in her Springfield home last July.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 29 to deny a petition by Tim Bliefnick, a Quincy man convicted of murdering his estranged wife in February 2023, for leave to appeal the Nov. 8 judgment of the Appellate Court, Fourth Judicial District.

A federal judge on Thursday declined to issue an injunction to stop an Illinois law that bans certain credit card fees from applying to credit unions while extending its previous injunction to apply to out-of-state banks.

The “BEARS Act,” introduced by State Rep. Bob Morgan, would require teams to win a majority of their games over a five-year period in order to be eligible to receive public funding for stadium projects, whether they are newly constructed homes or renovations of existing stadiums.

A resolution before the DuPage County Board on Tuesday would remove the name of the late Congressman Henry J. Hyde from the county’s Wheaton courthouse and rescind previous approval for a monument there in his honor.

The jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial went home without a verdict for the seventh day Thursday.

Ask a roomful of police officers if they could make any part of their job disappear with the wave of a magic wand, and more than a few will choose the time spent filling out reports and other paperwork.

Illinois participated in one court battle with the Trump administration Thursday when a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of an executive order that sought to end “birthright citizenship” under the U.S. Constitution.