A century of Illinois court decisions that a single-punch death isn’t grounds for a first-degree murder conviction prompted a Cook County judge Thursday to find the attacker of a Northern Trust bank executive guilty of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter.

Leading appellate attorneys review the two Illinois Supreme Court opinions handed down Thursday, June 25.  

A judge found a man guilty — rejecting an insanity defense — of trying to murder a woman in a brutal and unprovoked attack that left her critically injured, with one of her eyes permanently gone, and a good Samaritan injured at a McHenry park.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Thursday requiring businesses to disclose all the fees that will be tacked on to sales before customers get to the checkout stage.

The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.

Steve Fanady, 61, isn’t in jail for a crime. He’s being held for civil contempt but says he doesn’t have the money to pay up. He says he lives on hard-boiled eggs and peanut butter in the Cook County Jail. And he wants out. The courts have found his jailing “coercive” but legal.

July 1 marks a second New Year’s Day in Illinois as a new budget takes effect along with more than a dozen new state laws.