Two more former employees have filed federal lawsuits against the electric automaker Rivian, alleging they faced harassment and discrimination while on the job in Normal.

The first trial over claims that blockbuster heartburn drug Zantac, once sold by GSK and other companies, causes cancer is set to begin this week in Chicago.

In 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law that sought to wipe away the last vestiges of racial discrimination and redlining in America’s home mortgage industry.

Champaign County officials have made another plea to the Illinois Supreme Court to consider a long-running legal dispute between Carle Health and local and state taxing bodies.

Justice Mary K. O'Brien of the Supreme Court of Illinois has announced the formation of a judicial screening committee for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit.

Half of the judges who currently handle pretrial hearings, known as “bond court” during the cash bail era, are rotating to new assignments. And four judges will be replacing them.

Illinois voters will not be asked this year whether the right to an abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution, with advocates’ efforts to pass an amendment now on the backburner.