Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for ...

A lawsuit accusing a Florida man of defrauding an Illinois woman he promised to marry does not belong in the courts in this state, a federal judge ruled.

Where a defendant filed a motion to quash service of process, they are permitted to file an answer or counterclaim, and failure to do so in a timely fashion is not a due process violation.

Chicago Ald. Danny Solis sat in powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s office to tell him what he’d privately known for months: after 23 years in the Chicago City Council, he wasn’t going ...

A Cook County jury awarded a combined $2 million verdict to two Metra employees who were injured when a passing train crashed into the stationary train they were on.

A music corporation cannot be forced to come to Chicago to answer allegations that it and other defendants failed to receive ...

A former Chicago Public Schools teacher can pursue a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and retaliation, a federal judge ...

Then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis had already been cooperating with the FBI for a little more than a year in June 2017 when he ...

Where defendant is charged with two offenses from the same act that share a felony class, minimum sentence, and term of MSR, maximum sentence determines which is more serious.

A state watchdog has identified at least $7.2 million in fraudulent claims and more than 275 instances of misconduct by state employees accused of bilking a federal program designed to help businesses ...

The Illinois Supreme Court agreed to consider four civil Petition for Leave to Appeal dispositions, including interpreting the Public Employee Disability Act as it relates to withholding employment ...

A man who was injured when his car hit a concrete structure on a bridge lost a bid to have his negligence lawsuit against ...