Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, can't use its user agreement to escape yet another potentially massive payout from a lawsuit brought under Illinois' stringent biometric privacy law, a federal judge has ruled.

Former Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx should need to answer questions under oath about her decision to direct her deputies to not oppose a move by two women who had been convicted of first degree murder to toss their conviction and open a pathway to add their names to the list of once-convicted criminals suing the city of Chicago for alleged wrongful prosecution.

The gears of justice are grinding slowly these days in the East St. Louis courthouse where the fates are being decided of the nearly 6,500 lawsuits filed against Syngenta Corporation. The vast majority of the lawsuits have been filed by farmers and agricultural workers.

A Chicago police officer was about an hour and a half into a deposition Friday morning over one of dozens of misconduct allegations against him as a member of an embattled North Side tactical team when the officer’s attorney requested a break.

During his recent State of the State and budget address, Gov. JB Pritzker announced a new direction for nuclear energy in Illinois, aimed at staving off predicted energy shortages as the state moves toward carbon-free power generation.

A Cook County judge ruled cash-strapped Chicago is liable for overcharges and interest on more than a million tickets issued by the city from 2012 to 2022. If the ruling stands, refunds would add up to nearly $104 million.