The new headlines seem to pop up daily. The Flock cameras were allegedly used by a former sheriff’s deputy in Wisconsin's Kenosha County to stalk his then-girlfriend, who also worked as a deputy sheriff.

In the latest step of a yearslong process toward public defense reform in Illinois, the state supreme court this week opened applications for a statewide public defender.

An Illinois woman accused of killing her 2-year-old son also planned to poison her husband and believed she had killed her other children, prosecutors said in court this week.

The Better Government Association and DuPage County–based nonprofit Radical Hospitality Ministries are suing the Illinois state judiciary for failing to comply with a legal obligation to collect and publish data about people awaiting trial. 

Union County State's Attorney Tyler Tripp has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Illinois Department of Human Services from closing portions of the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna.

A successful legislative push embraced by Gov. JB Pritzker means the state’s male-dominated construction industry soon will have to make new job-site accommodations to employees who lactate and menstruate. Illinois is the second state with such a mandate.

A federal judge on Thursday declined to block Illinois’ new “medical aid in dying” law from going into effect this weekend, clearing the way for terminally ill adults to legally seek life-ending medication from physicians.

Illinois’ End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act, which Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law in December, is set to take effect Saturday. It would let doctors prescribe medication to help terminally ill patients end their lives.