The path to becoming a law professor is relatively cut and dried: Go to law school, earn a JD, work on a law review, complete judicial clerkships, build a portfolio of scholarly writing, and apply and interview. Add one more consideration: where to attend law school, which might also factor in significantly as to whether someone successfully becomes a law professor.

Cardinal Blase Cupich’s suit is one of at least three filed ahead of the law’s effective date: Sept. 12. A federal judge is expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction on one of the suits on Friday.

A man already convicted of threatening to castrate and kill a Chicago restaurateur has pleaded guilty in a separate case to funding his lavish lifestyle by bilking millions of dollars from investors, including a professional basketball player and a former aide to Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

A former Illinois chiropractor has pleaded guilty to secretly recording nude images of more than 180 patients, including children.

Justice Elizabeth M. Rochford of the Supreme Court of Illinois seeks public comment on the applicants for a Circuit Judge vacancy in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Third Subcircuit. The vacancy was created by the retirement of Judge Charles W. Smith, effective Aug. 31, 2026.