The Chicago Bar Association backtracked on its previous positive recommendations for two Cook County judges running for retention in the Nov. 5 General Election, citing residency issues in both cases.

It’s Election Day in America. Voters are heading to the polls in one of the most consequential elections in American history. In a politically polarized country, potential delays in reporting results ...

Advocate Health and Hospital Corp. must pay $5 million to the family of a man who committed suicide after being released from its psychiatric care, a state appellate panel held.

Where detective recklessly left false information in warrant affidavit, district court’s denial of motion to suppress was affirmed because false information was not material to finding of probable ...

A state court judge tentatively approved a $60 million settlement in a lawsuit accusing an investment adviser of negligence for placing his clients’ money with a movie producer who purportedly used ...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois recently held that an automobile insurer’s underinsured motorist coverage was triggered even though the insured recovered settlements that ...

Where an officer in a consensual encounter develops a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity the encounter transforms into a Terry stop.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.

On the eve of his retirement announcement in late 2016, longtime Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain wrote letters to longtime colleagues, expressing his appreciation for them.In one letter — shown to ...