It was a sunny and mild spring afternoon in May 2019 when roughly 100 FBI agents were dispatched to the homes — and one office — of eight allies to then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Bonnie M. Wheaton believes in thinking outside the box. As chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit, she plans to take that approach during her three-year term as the court’s leader with goals to ...

A job applicant who alleges a snack-food manufacturer withdrew a conditional offer of employment because he is a recovering heroin addict has stated a case for a violation of the Americans with ...

A clarification to Illinois’ biometric data privacy law made by state lawmakers earlier this year limits the size of damages that can be claimed in lawsuits over Biometric Information Privacy Act ...

A Cook County jury awarded $20 million to a Skokie man who fell into a coma as a result of allegedly negligent medical care.

During Donald Trump’s first term as president, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly spent much of their time enacting laws and policies in direct opposition to the ...

The Supreme Court recently heard the Facebook case on risk factors and public disclosures. Last week, it was looking at investors and public companies again, this time with Nvidia and a proposed class ...

Where counsel failed to file written consent on behalf of plaintiffs in a collective action, there were no valid parties to appeal and it was dismissed.

Where district court did not err in determining that prisoner could not proceed under Sec. 2241 habeas petition when he was authorized to proceed under the alternative method of Sec. 2255.The 7th U.S.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently held that an insurer’s failure to either defend an insured under a reservation or file a declaratory action to determine coverage ...

Iris Y. Martinez said that one of the biggest challenges she faced during her term as clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook ...

For nearly eight years, former Chicago Ald. Frank Olivo had a monthly ritual.