CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on ...

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

The widow of a Chicago police officer cannot sue the city of Chicago over her husband’s death from allegedly contracting COVID-19 while on the job, a federal judge held.

A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois’ assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued an order ...

Where the state moves for civil forfeiture and establishes a prima facie case that the property is subject to forfeiture, the burden shifts to the claimant to establish that it is not.

While an election took place last Tuesday, the Supreme Court began its November oral arguments with four cases, including two on Election Day. One of the cases involved Facebook and the Cambridge ...

A Chicago police officer is entitled to have her disability pension benefits for duty-related injuries reinstated, a state appellate panel held.A panel of the 1st District Appellate Court ruled that ...

Where district court did not err in accepting evidence of defendant’s culpability for drug-overdose death, because defendant's alternate theory was not supported by evidence in the record.The 7th U.S.

Regulators at the Illinois Commerce Commission are nearing decisions in several high-profile cases that could determine changes to utility bills for millions of Illinoisans.

Had they been any other job applicants, electric utility Commonwealth Edison likely wouldn’t have given a second look to ...

A teacher can continue her claim that she faced retaliation after reporting the alleged sexual assault and harassment of a student to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, a federal ...

Where an officer’s police report contains hearsay evidence and he can’t recall where he heard it or substantiate it otherwise, it is inadmissible as evidence.