A Chicago man is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to reverse his conviction or grant a new trial over questionable evidence that was used to convict him. Sidney Butler argues his half sister's victim-sensitive interview should not have been used during trial after she could not recall any incidents of sexual assault during cross-examination.

A little-known practice that lets private investors extract millions in equity from Illinois homeowners is under mounting legal fire after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, leaving some counties potentially on the hook for millions of dollars in damages.

A lawsuit has been filed against a Buffalo Grove man and owner of an ice cream shop who is accused of secretly recording children using the restroom in his shop and in his home, which attorneys called “atrocious.”

Rivera was fatally shot by her partner, Officer Carlos Baker, during a June 5 foot chase.

Dozens of Central Illinois firefighters filled the Champaign County Courthouse on Wednesday morning, sitting just feet away from the man police say stabbed and hurt three first responders last week in Champaign.

Gov. JB Pritzker believes this week's U.S. Supreme Court decision is allowing White House Border Czar Tom Homan and ICE to racially profile people in Chicago, but the Trump administration said they are committed to getting criminals off the street.

Beach will be Cook County’s first new chief judge in 24 years, after defeating eight-term incumbent Timothy Evans.

Tim Mapes, who for decades served as the right hand for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and the Illinois Democratic Party's executive director, has launched a legal fight with the state to reclaim his $154,000 per year pension, saying the state pension board wrongly stripped him of his pension after he was convicted of perjury for allegedly attempting to obstruct federal criminal proceedings against his former boss.