A bill filed in Illinois' House of Representatives would prohibit local, state, and federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks or neck gaiters, with the exception of medical-grade masks.

Marcia M. Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, announced last week that the Seventh Judicial Circuit judges voted to select Sierra Senor-Moore as associate judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

A judge in Illinois dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit Friday that sought to disrupt limits Chicago imposes on cooperation between federal immigration agents and local police. The lawsuit, filed in February, alleged that so-called sanctuary laws in the nation’s third-largest city “thwart” federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.

Under the ordinance, all boaters on the lake and waterways in Chicago would be required to wear a personal flotation device, or operators could face a fine.

Longtime Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain, who spent years as a close friend and advisor to ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for his role in a bribery scheme targeted at the former speaker.

A video posted Thursday shows two people in plainclothes, who advocates say appear to be immigration agents, surround a man and hold onto his arm without identifying themselves.

Governor JB Pritzker has signed House Bill 2488 into law, amending the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 by removing references to a federally-mandated program that required employers to provide wage data to the federal government.

Men's clothing retailer Men's Wearhouse has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing them of allegedly wrongly charging people who rent formal wear a $12 fee for "damage and handling,” which allegedly actually amounts to an illegal insurance contract.

The mayor of Antioch is calling on lawmakers to revisit and revise the SAFE-T Act after the release of a suspect in a high-profile case involving the death of a woman whose body was discovered in a storage container.

A final settlement has been reached in a December 2023 lawsuit challenging diversity efforts in State Bar of Wisconsin programs.