The alleged gunman who shot two teen boys, one fatally, said he was "defending" himself when he opened fire at them Thursday in Douglas Park on the West Side.

In what was quickly hailed as a legal victory for President Trump, a divided Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday that cements presidential authority and limits the future power of certain federal judges to check it.

Federal authorities on Friday announced charges against a Chicago man accused of punching a federal court clerk earlier this week outside the Dirksen Federal Building in the Loop.

A nonprofit that supports immigrant rights in Central Illinois is urging immigrant families not to panic following Friday‘s U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

A Will County lawsuit claims that the New Lenox Police Department engaged in “policing-for-profit” when its officers wrongfully seized a 2010 Jeep Wrangler belonging to a man innocent of wrongdoing.

The Illinois Attorney General's Office has entered the courtroom in the Illinois Innocence Project's effort to overturn the Slover family's murder convictions.

A judge has axed dozens more lawsuits from the list of thousands pending in Southern Illinois federal court accusing the makers of commercial weed killer Paraquat of allegedly causing Parkinson's disease.

The state’s appellate court has vacated a Whiteside County judge’s 2024 ruling denying a Sterling man’s motion to withdraw the guilty plea he made three years ago in the 2017 drunken driving death of a Sterling woman.

A homeowner in the south suburbs finally has his house back after alleged squatters moved into his home and wouldn't leave.