The Chicago Teachers Union is taking aim at the Illinois Policy Institute and the Liberty Justice Center, claiming in a defamation lawsuit filed Monday that social media posts and articles bashing the union’s finances and its president Stacy Davis Gates — and branding the union “toxic” — are part of a “deliberate campaign” to harm the union’s reputation.

Illinois has joined a growing number of states that are expanding fair lending obligations at the state level even as the federal government moves in the opposite direction.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is calling for permanent legislative fixes to what she describes as a dangerously flawed electronic monitoring system, warning that the increased use of ankle monitors for violent offenders has created “an unacceptable risk” to public safety.

After more than two decades as chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, Tim Evans is now an appellate court justice, taking on a new role in shaping the judicial system.

The macabre discovery of dozens of unrefrigerated, decomposing bodies at a South Side funeral home is prompting legislative calls for tighter government regulation of an industry that has operated largely free of state controls.

AstraZeneca sued Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Aug. 14, becoming the third drugmaker to challenge the state’s new 340B contract pharmacy law in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The move comes after Chief Peoria County Circuit Judge Katherine Gorman said that her initial 14-year prison term, handed down last summer, wasn’t appropriate due to past case law and a recent Peoria County case.

The Chicago Teachers Union is taking aim at the Illinois Policy Institute and the Liberty Justice Center, claiming in a defamation lawsuit filed Monday that social media posts and articles bashing the union’s finances and its president Stacy Davis Gates — and branding the union “toxic” — are part of a “deliberate campaign” to harm the union’s reputation.