The family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the ...

Democratic senators are fast-tracking Biden's judicial nominations before President-elect Trump takes office in January and after several of his nominees have come under fire.

Democratic governors and state attorneys general are bracing for a Trump administration that could undo their policy goals.

The Republican president-elect’s victory and the GOP takeover of the Senate leaves just seven weeks of Democratic control of ...

A Cook County Circuit Court judge has granted a motion to dismiss an injunction that would have required Cook County Clerk ...

A business owner cannot pursue a lawsuit alleging that a retired arson investigator fabricated evidence that led to his arrest for a fire set at his bar, a federal judge ruled.

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday pushed back on criticism that his Chicago police budget plan endangers the department’s ...

Following the Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022, three clinics offering abortion services opened in the small, liberal ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments Hoot Gibson, a member of the Board of Trustees for Baker University, in Kansas, has been named ...

Illinois guard Kylan Boswell (4) and Oakland’s forward Cooper Craggs (25) in a men's basketball game at the State Farm Center ...

Jurors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan on Thursday heard a series of never-before-played ...

With a Republican trifecta on the horizon, Senate Democrats are working to confirm as many federal judges as they can in the ...