State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations against a former Chicago police detective and his partners.

From: 
Injustice Watch

Illinois cannot yet file suit against the federal government for an apparent plan to send federal troops to Chicago, Attorney General Kwame Raoul said, but if boots hit the ground, President Donald Trump “should expect a legal challenge here.”

From: 
Capitol News Illinois

Broadview’s mayor and police chief on Tuesday called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop using chemical agents on protesters and appealed for the agency to respond to several requests, including information about three criminal investigations the suburb has initiated that involve ICE agents.

From: 
Chicago Sun-Times

Demystifying Public Records

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Marybeth Stanziola

 Starting in September and continuing through November, the ISBA is hosting a four-part continuing education program on the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. The CLE program will be surveying the latest in FOIA developments in a series of lunchtime webinar CLE presentations, the first of which was an overview on Sept. 10. The October 2025 Illinois Bar Journal provides an overview of all sessions, based on interviews with various presenters in public and private practice.

Judges and Psychiatrists Leadership Initiative Names Scott Block to National Advisory Group

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Marybeth Stanziola

The Judges and Psychiatrists Leadership Initiative (JPLI) has selected Scott Block, Behavioral Health Administrator, Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, from a highly competitive pool of candidates, to serve on its national Advisory Group.

Illinois State Bar Association Offering Free Trust Accounting & Billing Software to All Members With Smokeball Bill

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Marybeth Stanziola

Small law firms across Illinois just scored a major win. Smokeball, the industry-leading legal practice management software platform and legal AI trailblazer, today announced an exclusive relationship with the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) to provide all members with complimentary access to Smokeball Bill, its powerful trust accounting and billing solution.

in November 2022, the Illinois Supreme Court spoke on section 22.1 of the Illinois Condominium Act, holding that it did not provide condo sellers with a private right of action against their associations’ boards or property managers related to allegedly excessive fees for the production of documents mandated under that section.

From: 
The National Law Review

A federal judge has allowed several claims to move forward in a lawsuit accusing Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago of failing to protect patient data in a 2024 cyberattack that compromised the personal and medical information of about 791,784 people.

From: 
Becker's Health IT

Flock Safety has reinstalled the automatic license-plate reader cameras that the City of Evanston ordered it to take down in August over privacy concerns. The north suburb responded to the cameras’ reappearance by covering them in plastic sheeting to make sure they’re not photographing license plates.

From: 
Chicago Tribune