A Cook County jury awarded a record $79.8 million to a family that was injured in an unauthorized police chase that killed a 10-year-old girl.

The beneficiaries of several trusts were awarded $3.9 million in Cook County Circuit Court over a trustee and accounting firm’s alleged failure to inform them that they were entitled to the funds ...

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans ...

Where plaintiff made a FOIA request, the subject agency is only required to produce extant records, not make new ones.

Where absence of certain evidence on low-quality body camera video was not enough to call into question credibility of officer’s testimony that defendant was involved in a fight prior to arrest.

The U.S. Supreme Court is often criticized for not taking as many cases as it did in the past. Last term it issued fewer than 60 opinions. Similarly, the Illinois Supreme Court takes fewer cases than ...

A Cook County jury awarded $9.6 million to a man who was shot and permanently paralyzed by a trespasser in his residential building after he got caught up in an altercation.

After nearly a dozen years working for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, Tom Cullen went out on his own in 1999, building up a lengthy roster of diverse — and often high-paying — clients that ...

Officers at a county jail in Illinois did not violate the constitutional rights of a detainee who died by suicide, a federal judge held.In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston of ...

A Cook County jury awarded $9.6 million to a man who was shot and permanently paralyzed by a trespasser in his residential building after he got caught up in an altercation.

A medical clinic must pay $1.36 million to the estate of a woman whom it allegedly overprescribed anticoagulants to the detriment of her health, a state appellate panel ruled.

Former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo never had to appear in a federal courtroom between 2021 and 2022 as he was arraigned on tax evasion charges, later pleaded guilty and was then sentenced to six months ...