“The threat of arrest and prosecution keeps sex workers unsafe and in the shadows, and this threat must be eliminated,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, said Monday at a news conference announcing the proposed bill. “This law is essential now more than ever.”

The former Republican Illinois Attorney General candidate is taking the Illinois House Minority Leader to federal court over alleged censorship on her social media page used to communicate government business.

A measure awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature will help protect transgender people and victims of domestic violence who seek to change their names, according to its proponents.

The Illinois Supreme Court announced the release of a newly redesigned Annual Report Administrative Summary for 2023.

A Cook County judge was reassigned, ordered to undergo bias training and will face a state disciplinary investigation for allegedly circulating a racist meme. The judge, Caroline Glennon-Goodman, was the subject of an order issued Friday by the Circuit Court’s Executive Committee, which convened to handle the matter after Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans fielded the allegation.

One new Illinois law will have an impact on Illinois youth, especially those within the foster care system. The Haircare Plan (HB5097) will require every youth in foster care to have a haircare plan included in their over all care.

A judge reversed his decision and released a Gurnee woman who prosecutors say threatened to shoot a clerk while implying she was armed during a failed robbery at a gas station near Lake Villa.

The Galesburg Board of Education tonight will consider whether to move forward with the appeal a federal lawsuit involving the rights of a student with a disability.