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

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

Article Summary A judge has denied former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s motion to remain free as the legal appeal ...

Legal experts had predicted the judge would deny Madigan's request. However, the former Illinois House Speaker can make the ...

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

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

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 ...

An appeals court has rejected a man's request for an innocence certification after he was convicted three times in the killing of a Burrito Express restaurant owner in McHenry in 2001 and then ...

A federal appeals court dealt a setback for President Donald Trump’s offensive to end birthright citizenship, even after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the lower courts to avoid overly broad ...

Texas can require people applying to vote by mail to submit identification numbers that match state records, a federal ...

A Springfield attorney is being fined and could face additional penalties after admitting to using artificial intelligence in ...