Illinois is receiving $148.8 million from Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family as part of a nationwide $7.4 billion settlement agreement that took effect Friday, marking the state’s latest payout from companies that systematically addicted generations of Americans to opioids.

After nearly three decades of serving Winnebago and Boone County residents, Associate Judge Steven L. Nordquist announced he will soon hang up the black robe for good.

Filing charges on agent accused of aggravated battery on Elgin protesters would be exercise in futility, Jamie Mosser explains.

At first blush, a case unfolding in Cook County Judge Daniel Gallagher’s courtroom has the hallmarks of a neighbor dispute that’s taken an ugly turn.

Three dozen Illinois school districts are the latest in a string of public schools, colleges and universities across the country named as subjects of federal investigations into whether the institutions teach about sexual orientation and “gender ideology,” and whether parents can opt out of such curriculum.

Federal agents who fired pepper balls and deployed chemical agents against citizens protesting an immigration arrest late last year in Elgin will not be criminally prosecuted. Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser announced that decision Thursday, saying that while at least one agent may have committed felony aggravated battery under Illinois law, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prevents his prosecution.

The commission Gov. JB Pritzker appointed to investigate what happened when federal immigration agents descended upon the Chicago area last year has wrapped up its investigations and is making state and federal recommendations. But before federal agents could face charges, more steps have to be taken.

After a stint in Austin, Texas, Cat Valdez Doyle returned to Rockford with ideas for improving the community. The local advocate asked leaders how to apply “innovative” initiatives she saw work to ease tax burdens or take new action.