In a rare joint stance of opposition, the Illinois State Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association spoke out against a ...

A Cook County jury awarded $6.7 million to an electrician and his wife over injuries the man sustained from a flash fire that sparked while he was working in a fuel pit at a Chicago gas station.

A federal judge on Friday declined to enjoin the enforcement of a Chicago ordinance that restricts the items that may be brought into the “Security Footprint” — a protected area around McCormick Place ...

A man who was fired for testing positive for marijuana does not have a case against his former employer under the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act, a federal judge held.

New safety requirements for carbon dioxide pipelines as well as a temporary ban on their construction are now in effect after Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed a bill that passed the General ...

I was not surprised when I learned that “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” a 1994 nonfiction book by John Berendt, was made into a musical.

Where a defendant received judgment on bond forfeiture for a traffic case, it is not a conviction under the Criminal Identification Act and cannot be sealed under the act.

After two jetliner crashes killed 346 people, a $2.5 billion settlement that let Boeing avoid criminal prosecution failed to resolve questions about the safety of the aerospace giant’s planes.

Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer might have thought she knew the type of tasks that lay ahead of her when she became the top federal trial judge of the Northern District of Illinois five ...

The recent 2nd District Appellate Court decision in Arteaga v. Watson, 2024 IL (2d) 220406-U, brought to mind my first civil jury trial, Joseph Sandoval v. Kara LaFerrara, 04 AR 26, in the summer of ...

The city of Chicago will pay $2.5 million to the estate of a woman who died after her vehicle was hit by the suspect in a high-speed police chase.

The city of Chicago will pay $11.2 million to 12 current and former paramedics who alleged in a federal lawsuit that they were terminated from the Chicago Fire Department because of sex discrimination ...