The Illinois Supreme Court says criminal defendants who are sentenced to jail as punishment for violating the terms of their pretrial release on electronic monitoring aren’t entitled to good behavior credit typically used to reduce the duration of a prison sentence, which could allow them to avoid the punishment altogether.

A leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang was convicted Monday of racketeering conspiracy, two murders in aid of racketeering and extortion, the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois said in a news release.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that his office, as part of a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general, joined a lawsuit against Uber Technologies, LLC and Uber USA, LLC, the operators of the popular rideshare and delivery company over its alleged deceptive and unfair practices in selling Uber One subscription services, which Uber promotes as saving users money on rides and deliveries.

A new law is expanding property tax relief for senior homeowners. The tax deferral program increases income eligibility for the 2025 tax year and beyond. The deadline to apply for the 2025 Senior tax deferral program is March 1, 2026.

Beginning Jan. 1, Illinois employers will be required to provide paid breaks for nursing mothers who earn hourly wages. The “Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act” already protects nursing mothers on a salary, but now it will also cover nursing mothers paid by the hour.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a bipartisan law making a host of changes, including making cocktails-to-go permanent in the state.