Sheila Murphy was a Cook County public defender, a private criminal defense attorney and Cook County’s first female presiding judge.

The lawsuit is the latest indication that the Trump administration, which is attempting to strip self-proclaimed sanctuary ...

The city is asking a Cook County judge to reconsider a ruling that an internal panel must meet publicly, saying it would ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois participated in one court battle with the Trump administration Thursday when a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of an executive order that sought to end ...

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois participated in one court battle with the Trump administration Thursday when a federal judge ...

City and state officials hammered out a plan for Mercy Housing, an affordable housing nonprofit that owns and operates dozens ...

This case and another taking aim at suburban counties are moving forward in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2023 ...

FBI agents arrested Arnolda Jimenez in the killing of his newlywed wife. Her body was found in a bathtub in her wedding dress.

James Gibson said he implicated himself in a 1989 double murder after being burned, punched, kicked and slapped by Chicago ...

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and local officials ...

Thornton Township has settled which candidates for supervisor will appear on the April 1 ballot, as objectors to Democratic nominee and state Sen. Napoleon Harris dropped their challenge Monday.