A panel of Illinois Appellate Court judges on Friday upheld a previous court ruling that mandated public access to the most ...

Illinois appellate court rules Chicago police misconduct hearings must be public, but officers can remain paid during ...

The three-judge panel found that moving hearings behind closed doors would violate well-defined public policy, which favors ...

Illinois' former House speaker is due in prison in about two months. He asked a judge to let him remain free while he ...

The ruling, which is likely to be appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, endorses the effort backed by the city’s largest ...

Chicago police Detective Kriston Kato again raises the specter of police torture that hangs over numerous Cook County ...

Appeals court sets Sept. 22 for oral arguments in Illinois gun ban challenge. A gun rights advocate believes the question ...

Trump's attorneys asked the Illinois Appellate Court to overturn Judge Tracie Porter's ruling that he be kicked off Republican primary ballots in Illinois. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...

(The Center Square) – Illinois’ gun and magazine ban will stay in effect pending the outcome in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the appeals court ruled Thursday. Illinois banned the ...

From Thursday's Appellate Court of Illinois decision in Pokorny v. DeBolt, written by Justice Joseph Birkett and joined by Justices Susan Hutchinson and Donald Hudson: A plenary order of ...

Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Conviction for Threatening a Judge A defendant's telling his lawyer, "when I get out of here, I'm going to get that judge" and "I don't make threats [,] I make ...

Disciplinary hearings for Chicago police officers involving alleged misconduct should take place in public, according to a ...