DePaul University College of Law has named Geoffrey Rapp its new dean, effective July 1, the university announced Thursday.

A federal judge on Thursday declined to acquit former AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza after his September trial on ...

The U.S. Justice Department and the city of Louisville have reached an agreement to reform the city’s police force after an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor and ...

Where defendant possesses an unexpired license suspended for failure to obtain proper insurance, this is not an aggravating factor under 501(d)(1)(H) of the Illinois Vehicle Code.

A lawyer who “displayed shockingly unprofessional conduct” after the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission sought to make her cover the costs of disciplinary proceedings brought ...

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 ...

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 ...