When Jillian Lake was a student at Oswego High School she followed a routine. She woke up in the morning, got dressed and drove through the community she’d grown up in.

SWAT officers stormed Ebony Tate’s home without knocking, aimed guns at the children and forced their grandmother outside in her underwear. “I’m just praying that this will put a stop to the wrongful raids,” Tate said after the verdict.

On Feb. 24, U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey rejected a bid by the operators of Illinois charter schools for an injunction blocking the state of Illinois from enforcing a law which demands "neutrality" from charter school operators concerning union activity in their schools.

A new Illinois bill would ensure that emergency orders of protection stay in place until a final order is officially served to the offender.

A federal jury began deliberating Tuesday about whether a “code of silence” among Chicago Police Department officers led to a botched August 2018 raid of a Back of the Yards apartment that violated the civil rights of a family with four children.

A third grader who stopped eating lunch at school because he feared typing in his lunch code would help immigration enforcement agents target his family. A mother who considered granting guardianship of her daughter to a healthcare provider so she could get the care she needed if her parents had to leave the country without her. A vibrant economic corridor turned into a ghost town.

Chicago’s federal prosecutor’s office has been chosen as a lead partner on a new task force targeting major trade fraud schemes nationwide.

Just one year after the Illinois General Assembly failed to pass a school cellphone ban, Gov. JB Pritzker is asking lawmakers to advance an even stricter version of the proposal that mandates all public and charter school districts adopt a ban that runs throughout the full school day.