An Aurora man was sentenced to 105 years in prison for the murder of his former domestic partner in a drive-by shooting, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old Serhonda Burnett died shortly after Travares O. Mitchell, 51, fired three gunshots into her car Jan. 13, 2024, as she drove in the area near Prairie Street and Woodlawn Avenue, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said.

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MSN

Thousands of new and expectant mothers in Illinois could soon receive $1,500 cash payments under a new proposal moving through the state Legislature.

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Belleville News-Democrat

An estimated 250,000 more Illinois residents with disabilities are now eligible to open special savings accounts after a recent change in federal law, according to Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs.

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WSIL

The man convicted of tossing root beer in the face of former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was sentenced to a year of probation on Monday, bringing to an end a case that critics say highlighted the county’s two-tiered justice system, in which some victims appear to hold a premier status.

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CWB Chicago

The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent weeks saying her staff can only go so far to target the feds.

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Chicago Sun-Times

A federal lawsuit filed by life insurance company Nippon claims OpenAI’s chatbot acted as a lawyer and convinced a woman to fire her human attorney.

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News Nation

Illinois Supreme Court To Hear Oral Arguments at Western Illinois University on March 11

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Marybeth Stanziola

WHAT: Oral arguments for two cases, People v. Marshall and E.W., etc., et al., v. The Board of Education of East St. Louis School District #189 will be held before the Illinois Supreme Court and an audience of around 600 students and local community members. A question-and-answer session with Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Judges Heidi Benson and Nigel Graham, along with attorney Emily Sutton, will follow the oral arguments.

Divorced Income

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Marybeth Stanziola

In the March issue of the Illinois Bar Journal, Reuben A. Bernick revisits a previous IBJ article of his assessing the conflict between: a) cases holding that postdecree proceeds from the sale of retirement assets were income subject to child support and maintenance and b) other cases holding that such proceeds were not income and therefore not subject to support obligations. Reuben, in his March 2026 article, “Divorced Income,” says there continues to be no definitive resolution to this conflict in the caselaw.