Federal prosecutors will probe whether Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson improperly hired city employees because they are Black, the Trump administration announced Monday.

The future of a state-funded program to increase the diversity of faculty at colleges and universities in Illinois is in doubt as the Trump administration continues to pressure higher education to abandon DEI values.

The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a decades-old practice of taking every cent of people’s home equity over unpaid property taxes. Experts say Illinois lags behind other states with a segregation-era law that mostly affects Black communities.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives threatens an Illinois program that provides scholarships to minority graduate students who agree to stay in the state and work in the education field.

In the wake of the highly-publicized shooting of a Springfield woman by a police officer, a measure requiring more stringent background checks for police hires has passed both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly.

An appeals court ruled against a mother who claimed her three-year prison sentence was “excessive” after her young child was found “severely malnourished” in Harvard and days from death.

The Woodford County State’s Attorney is blaming Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act for allowing the release before trial of a Germantown Hills man on 21 felony counts of possessing child pornography.

A measure to enhance road safety for senior citizens could soon become law in Illinois. State senators are considering the “Road Safety and Fairness Act” after House lawmakers passed it last month. Some senior citizens rely on driving themselves.

A member of a Chicago street gang has been sentenced to 34 years in federal prison for the murder of Paul Harris. Diontae Harper, 25, admitted in a plea agreement that he killed Harris on May 13, 2020. The incident occurred when Harper and another man fired multiple shots at Harris while he was seated in a vehicle at a gas station on South Halsted Street in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood.