A man who was fired for testing positive for marijuana does not have a case against his former employer under the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act, a federal judge held.

Where a defendant received judgment on bond forfeiture for a traffic case, it is not a conviction under the Criminal Identification Act and cannot be sealed under the act.

After two jetliner crashes killed 346 people, a $2.5 billion settlement that let Boeing avoid criminal prosecution failed to resolve questions about the safety of the aerospace giant’s planes.

Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer might have thought she knew the type of tasks that lay ahead of her when she became the top federal trial judge of the Northern District of Illinois five ...

In a rare joint stance of opposition, the Illinois State Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association spoke out against a ...

The city of Chicago will pay $2.5 million to the estate of a woman who died after her vehicle was hit by the suspect in a high-speed police chase.

The city of Chicago will pay $11.2 million to 12 current and former paramedics who alleged in a federal lawsuit that they were terminated from the Chicago Fire Department because of sex discrimination ...

President Joe Biden is seriously considering proposals to establish term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices and an ethics code that would be enforceable under law amid growing concerns that the ...

A former Republican congressman from New York told Illinois Republicans Tuesday that to win more elections in their deeply blue state, they need to reach beyond the traditional conservative voting ...

Where the court holds significant hearings via videoconferencing, it must obtain an explicit waiver from defendant of his right to be present, not merely his consent to proceed as it was already.

While Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month has passed, the book I placed on hold at the Chicago Public Library has just arrived. It’s Claire Jean Kim’s “Asian Americans in an Anti-Black ...

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says it’s shutting down all of its operations in the United States, just weeks after the Commerce Department banned the use of the company’s software in the country.