An Illinois Appellate Court recently dismissed the appeal by a former police officer of a pension board's denial of pension benefits because he violated Illinois Supreme Court Rules when he filed an appellate brief almost wholly created with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). Pletcher v. Village of Libertyville Police Pension Board.

Justice Elizabeth Rochford of the Supreme Court of Illinois has begun an application process for an At-Large Circuit Judge vacancy in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Kane County. The vacancy will be created by the retirement of Judge Kevin T. Busch on January 29, 2026.

Morgan Geyser, the woman convicted in the Wisconsin Slender Man stabbing a decade ago, appeared in a Chicago courtroom Monday after escaping her group home Saturday.

An invoice for just under $48,000 was sent to Sangamon County Administrator Brian McFadden by Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins to cover overtime hours, meals, security infrastructure and medical supplies associated with the murder trial of Sean Grayson, held Oct. 21-29 at the Peoria County Courthouse.

Chicago-area housing advocates are bracing for many of the 8,500 formerly unhoused people whose residences are subsidized by the federal government to lose their homes after the Trump administration announced it was drastically changing its funding rules and slashing the money available to subsidize long-term housing solutions.

The Fourth District Appellate Court has reversed a circuit court decision and bounced a property tax dispute between Logan County and the not-for-profit that formerly ran Lincoln College back to the lower court.

Illinois law holds businesses that serve alcohol liable for injuries caused by an intoxicated patron; damages capped at $107K.