A third grader who stopped eating lunch at school because he feared typing in his lunch code would help immigration enforcement agents target his family. A mother who considered granting guardianship of her daughter to a healthcare provider so she could get the care she needed if her parents had to leave the country without her. A vibrant economic corridor turned into a ghost town.

Chicago’s federal prosecutor’s office has been chosen as a lead partner on a new task force targeting major trade fraud schemes nationwide.

Just one year after the Illinois General Assembly failed to pass a school cellphone ban, Gov. JB Pritzker is asking lawmakers to advance an even stricter version of the proposal that mandates all public and charter school districts adopt a ban that runs throughout the full school day.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, can't use its user agreement to escape yet another potentially massive payout from a lawsuit brought under Illinois' stringent biometric privacy law, a federal judge has ruled.

Former Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx should need to answer questions under oath about her decision to direct her deputies to not oppose a move by two women who had been convicted of first degree murder to toss their conviction and open a pathway to add their names to the list of once-convicted criminals suing the city of Chicago for alleged wrongful prosecution.

The gears of justice are grinding slowly these days in the East St. Louis courthouse where the fates are being decided of the nearly 6,500 lawsuits filed against Syngenta Corporation. The vast majority of the lawsuits have been filed by farmers and agricultural workers.