Governor JB Pritzker has signed House Bill 2488 into law, amending the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 by removing references to a federally-mandated program that required employers to provide wage data to the federal government.

Men's clothing retailer Men's Wearhouse has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing them of allegedly wrongly charging people who rent formal wear a $12 fee for "damage and handling,” which allegedly actually amounts to an illegal insurance contract.

The mayor of Antioch is calling on lawmakers to revisit and revise the SAFE-T Act after the release of a suspect in a high-profile case involving the death of a woman whose body was discovered in a storage container.

A final settlement has been reached in a December 2023 lawsuit challenging diversity efforts in State Bar of Wisconsin programs.

The recommendation for Doherty “is significantly less than what the government otherwise would have recommended” had it not been for the sentences already handed down to his co-defendants, a prosecutor wrote.

Shortly after taking office in December, newly elected Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke quietly scrapped two lengthy lists of tarnished police officers that were maintained by her predecessor to fulfill the office’s constitutional obligations and prevent wrongful convictions.

Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County Deputy Sheriff, is seeking to introduce evidence of the mental state of Sonya Massey, the woman he is accused of killing, as part of his defense in an upcoming trial.

On March 20, 2025, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman approved a nationwide class-action settlement that grants class members a 23% equity stake in Clearview AI. The settlement, outlined in a 36-page order, is a first-of-its-kind resolution to privacy litigation involving alleged violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and other state laws.