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.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid in cases involving 3 ex-cops: Jon Burge, Reynaldo Guevara and Ronald Watts. And more than 220 lawsuits are still pending. Beleaguered taxpayers might end up paying hundreds of millions more for those remaining cases.

A leading appellate attorney reviews the two Illinois Supreme Court opinions handed down yesterday.