Federal prosecutors are seeking a six-year prison term for former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s right hand man from Quincy.

It’s been more than a year since the subject of a 25News Digging Deeper report was charged with home repair fraud, but some of his many victims feel justice is far away.

Tax returns for Chicago Ridge’s Animal Welfare League show a steady increase in legal fees over the past decade, with the nonprofit paying one firm nearly $600,000 during the last fiscal year.

Fifteen-year-old Sam Thomas has spent much of the past two years riding his e-bike between his Itasca home and nearby Elk Grove Village.

One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for more than two days. Another was held in restraints so tight that, afterward, part of a limb had to be amputated. A third person was confined in restraints for 12 days, then 30 days and then again for 29 days.

Hospital officials in Illinois say they will have to make some difficult decisions in the next few years that could involve laying off staff, cutting back services and even closing some facilities entirely.

A new compliance audit shows the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity missed the mark on multiple provisions of the law moving Illinois toward 100% clean energy by 2050.

A nearly decade-long legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently concluded with a significant jury verdict, underscoring the potentially severe consequences of trade secret theft claims.