Opportunity Financial is looking to obtain a national bank charter through a $130 million deal to acquire BNCCORP and its subsidiary BNC National Bank, a nationally chartered commercial bank in Arizona.

A state investigation has resulted in a company paying over $74,000 after officials found that employees working on a public works project in Lake County were shorted pay.

Nearly 40% of legal professionals estimate losing four or more hours of billable work each week because of administrative tasks, according to new data from professional business platform 8am.

Last fall’s “Operation Midway Blitz” campaign to remove the “worst of the worst” was more hype than reality, a Chicago Sun-Times / WBEZ analysis has found. Immigration officers were often more successful at detaining serious criminals before and after the high-profile mass deportation campaign in Chicago nearly one year ago.

Illinois will receive up to $768 million from a multi-state $17.1 billion settlement with social media giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — the culmination of a three-year legal battle brought by state attorneys general.

Cops have been accused of tapping into Flock’s sprawling network to stalk people, while activists have been charged with vandalizing the company’s cameras. But as some municipalities have jettisoned the technology, others have gone all in.

On August 21, two digital asset industry trade associations announced a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County challenging Illinois’s Digital Asset Tax Act. The Act, which takes effect January 1, 2027, imposes a 0.2% tax on the value of digital assets involved in certain exchanges, transfers, and storage activities conducted through digital asset brokers.