State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s prosecutors are routinely asking judges to keep suspects in jail until trial when they’ve been charged with having a machine gun — mostly handguns converted into automatic weapons.

Federal charges have been filed against a Chicago man accused of forging the signatures of two federal judges in court filings in an attempt to lift restrictions that had been placed on him after several of his civil lawsuits were deemed frivolous.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from enforcing the “Defund Provision” in the recently enacted federal budget reconciliation law.

Mercer County School Board President Bill Smock issued a statement Thursday regarding the arrest of the district’s superintendent and two other employees for allegedly accessing student medical records.

O'Neill Burke announced that prosecutors must now seek pre-trial detention for anyone accused of certain crimes, particularly violent offenses, domestic violence cases and sex offenses or crimes against children.

Some Democratic lawmakers believe Illinois should be the first state to require voting for all eligible residents. A plan in Springfield would treat voting as a civic duty.

In a superseding indictment unsealed Wednesday, 26 high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel are accused of being involved in trafficking hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine into southern Illinois and laundering the proceeds to Mexico.

The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered former Illinois attorney general Republican nominee Tom DeVore’s law license suspended for 60 days, following a yearslong public feud involving his client-turned-girlfriend and the state’s attorney discipline board.

District Court for the District of Rhode Island Judge William E. Smith rejected the “arbitrary and capricious” conditions laid out by the Trump administration regarding immigration enforcement, saying the order was unconstitutional and violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

A McHenry man is being held on felony charges of failing to register as a sex offender and loitering in a school zone as a child sex offender involving a situation on the morning of Sept. 17 near the Hawthorn Elementary District 73 north campus.