For the second straight primary season, more than half the races for Cook County circuit judge on the March 17 ballot are uncontested, with just 45 candidates vying for 28 open seats.

Nearly three years after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on selling property tax debt, Illinois legislators continue to delay reforms to bring the state into compliance with the decision.

Illinois lawmakers are weighing legislation that would require public schools to share all evidence used to suspend or expel a student with that student’s parents or guardians before a disciplinary hearing.

The Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association, the state’s two largest organizations of their kind, have released recommendations for judicial candidates running in the March 17 primary.

The man accused of killing a Coles County board member and his wife last year in a case of DUI pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison.

When Jillian Lake was a student at Oswego High School she followed a routine. She woke up in the morning, got dressed and drove through the community she’d grown up in.

SWAT officers stormed Ebony Tate’s home without knocking, aimed guns at the children and forced their grandmother outside in her underwear. “I’m just praying that this will put a stop to the wrongful raids,” Tate said after the verdict.

On Feb. 24, U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey rejected a bid by the operators of Illinois charter schools for an injunction blocking the state of Illinois from enforcing a law which demands "neutrality" from charter school operators concerning union activity in their schools.

A new Illinois bill would ensure that emergency orders of protection stay in place until a final order is officially served to the offender.