Minimum wages.Name a hot topic, and chances are good there’s a new law about it taking effect in 2025 in one state or another ...

A retired police officer in the nation’s capital was convicted Monday of lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group.

President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal district judgeships, saying “hurried action” ...

Where defendant’s postconviction petition reaches second-stage proceedings, postconviction counsel has an obligation to support any new claims made with evidence and authority.

Changes that would make Illinois pension systems compliant with Social Security by improving benefits for government ...

Food company Conagra Brands Inc. lost a bid to have a $7.1 million jury verdict against it reversed related to deep second-degree burns a woman sustained from a flash fire caused by an allegedly ...

Where the Chicago Park District is contracted to control, maintain and operate park land they own it for the purpose of the Illinois Vehicle Code.

Though he wouldn’t get a formal diagnosis of dementia until a few years — and one felony plea — later, former state Rep.

Illinois utilities are set to invest more than a billion dollars into upgrading the state’s electric distribution grid, resulting in higher rates for customers around the state.

The minimum wage in Illinois will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the increase was approved in 2019.

Cook County Circuit Judge Robert F. Harris has four sons. They may not be his biological children, but he has raised them as his own.

Before jurors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s trial departed the Dirksen Federal Courthouse for a two-week break on Thursday, they heard glowing testimony from the ex-speaker’s ...