It can take years for Chicago Housing Authority residents to move to another apartment after filing relocation requests over safety concerns. Some have waited as long as seven years. Others have died waiting.

Backers of a bill aimed at limiting law enforcement’s use of biometric surveillance say they’re not looking to move the measure this legislative session.

The decision to release a five-time felon with four pending felony cases, including two violent robberies, on electronic monitoring was not a mistake, Cook County’s chief judge says, even though that man is now accused of going on to murder a Chicago police officer and gravely wounding the fallen officer’s partner.

The Supreme Court says man can sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash.

A hearing in a Whiteside County courtroom could have a ripple effect across Illinois as a lawyer challenges the jury pool in the case of Michael Cover.

All three acted “with profound malice, fabricating a case, suppressing evidence, and intentionally using false testimony” to destroy the Council member’s career, said Craig D. Tobin, Gardiner’s lawyer.

With just two weeks left in the spring legislative session, Illinois Senate Democrats introduced an eight-bill package aimed at regulating some uses of artificial intelligence after a lack of federal action on the issue.

Trust in U.S. elections is eroding. Between skepticism about redistricting, fear about immigration agents at the polls, and unproven claims about widespread election fraud, Americans are losing confidence in the accuracy and security of their elections.