Former Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Rita B. Garman has joined the Champaign law firm of Webber & Thies PC.

Newly effective amendments to the Illinois Whistleblower Act provide greatly enhanced protections and remedies to Illinois employees who report unlawful conduct by their employers.

Diana Juarez, 38, likes to tell stories about her father with her mother, her siblings and her own children. About how he loved to work on cars, how he would wear matching Cubs or Bears jerseys with his family when there were games going on, the little jokes and sayings he repeated to them.

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday challenged Gov. JB Pritzker, a fellow Democrat, to use his bully pulpit to strengthen Illinois' weak ethics laws, saying a "top-to-bottom overhaul" is needed after the federal corruption conviction of their former state party chairman, ex-Speaker Michael Madigan.

With the four-month trial now in the rearview mirror, a juror from the Michael Madigan trial explained why they were able to convict the former speaker on some counts, but not others.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell are leading a coalition of 16 attorneys general in issuing guidance to "help businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations understand the viability and importance of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility policies and practices in creating and maintaining legally compliant and thriving workplaces."

As the Trump administration has begun enacting mass deportations in recent weeks, activists and public officials in Chicago have been scaling up protections for immigrants.

A year after Isaac Goodlow III was shot to death by a Carol Stream police officer called to a domestic dispute, his family and their lawyers continue to say an injustice has been done.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent offenses.