For the second time in three years, the Illinois House voted to ban hidden “junk fees” that are often added to the total cost of ticketed events, hotel rooms and other goods and services.

The $1.15 billion project is designed to keep invasive carp species out of the Great Lakes. Federal officials want to move management of the project to Michigan.

Baby formula maker Abbott Labs has been ordered to pay at least $70 million, after a jury found the company should pay for allegedly not doing enough to prevent four infants from ingesting infant formula that caused them to become severely ill.

Travis Braden settled his civil rights case with Williamson County for $27,500 after he was restrained in a chair for days — a practice deemed “torture” by the United Nations.

What the city of Rockford says about who owns the data collected by Flock Safety cameras and what's written in Rockford Police Department general orders contradict each other — for now.

Chicago taxpayers should pay $9.5 million to a man who spent 19 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a man in a North Side assisted living facility, city lawyers recommended.

McLean County’s jail population appears to be leveling off after a steady rise in the number of detainees over the past few years, though it's too early to say it's a trend.

The Illinois House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to ban indirect quotas for municipal police. Illinois banned state, county and local police from enforcing traffic ticket and arrest quotas in 2015. However, many departments are still forcing officers to meet a set number of traffic stops and citations each month.