It's no secret that when the Vatican announced Pope Leo XIV as the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, everyone wanted ...

Eileen O’Neil Burke wants to amend the Illinois criminal code to consider attacks on reproductive health clinics terrorism.

John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell sued the Chicago Police Department and the county in 2020 alleging they were railroaded as ...

Discusses the first Minnesota Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA) opinion in Cook v. Trimble, 2025 WL 1287932 ...

Attorneys before the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed on one point: A Chicago-area judge flouted the state’s ...

The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a decades-old practice of taking every cent of people’s home equity over unpaid ...

Mariyana Spyropoulos campaigned on running a tighter ship than her predecessors, promising better transparency around court operations and stricter ethics enforcement.

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Michael Flannelly was chosen to succeed retiring Judge Maria Musti Cook as the county court's president judge.

A Cook County fugitive who failed to appear in court earlier this year was arrested in Chicago with drugs and a fake ID, ...