The Illinois Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to advance a bill that would regulate how large artificial intelligence model developers handle transparency and catastrophic risk.

From: 
WTTW

A husband has filed a lawsuit accusing Nicor Gas of negligence for a gas-fueled explosion and fire that killed his wife, seriously injured his son and left their home completely destroyed in Wonder Lake.

From: 
Lake & McHenry County Scanner

As lawmakers race toward an adjournment deadline later this month, they are entering the final stretch of the spring session by advancing legislation focused on affordability, health care access, and labor protections.

From: 
NPR Illinois

Amazon has turned aside another attempt to use Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law to extract a potentially big payout from the company, after a federal appeals court again shut down a class action lawsuit over claims Illinois' residents voices were allegedly wrongly recorded when financial services firm John Hancock used Amazon Web Services and another company to verify customers' identities over the phone.

From: 
Legal Newsline

Only about one in three instances of sexual violence are reported to law enforcement, and the majority of them fail to lead to a prosecution and conviction, survivor advocates say.

From: 
Daily Herald

A lawsuit that prompted the closure of the Mary Davis Home Juvenile Detention Center in Galesburg has been dropped two months after the center shut down.

From: 
Our QC News

U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros made the highly unusual announcement Thursday, hours after a closed-door meeting was held about redactions made by prosecutors to a set of grand jury transcripts. The Operation Midway Blitz case has now become the most controversial prosecution of Boutros’ 14-month tenure.

From: 
Chicago Sun-Times