The Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association have released their recommendations for judicial candidates running in the Nov. 3 election. The ISBA and the CBA are the state's two largest bar associations.

A judge sentenced an asbestos contractor to over six years in federal prison for claiming a former Waukegan hospital was clean while leaving behind asbestos that was scattered during demolition, endangering people.

Prosecutors say a southern Illinois man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s 8-year-old son and trying to kill her attempted to arrange the woman’s murder from jail before his bench trial on Monday.

Former two-term 2nd Ward Ald. Bob Fioretti has a challenge on his hands in his run against Kwame Raoul, the Democratic incumbent Illinois attorney general since 2019, who won his last two elections by a more than 11-point margin.

A group of potentially thousands of truck drivers can move ahead with a class action lawsuit accusing railroad operator Union Pacific of scanning their fingerprints, allegedly in violation of Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law, after a federal appeals panel agreed Union Pacific's contracts with Metra and other taxpayer-funded units of Illinois government don't protect it from a potentially big payout.

On September 17, Illinois’ Constitution Day, a coalition of legal justice reform advocates, allies, and community members impacted by extreme sentencing held a rally outside the Office of Governor JB Pritzker. 

A man convicted in a fatal DUI crash is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to review his case, arguing that cannabis test results used in his prosecution came from a University of Illinois Chicago laboratory whose testing practices were later called into question.

Ten nonprofits, including Housing Action Illinois, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for attempting to claw back funding allocated for housing counseling services.