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

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 ...

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

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

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

An Illinois Appellate Court panel on Friday reversed the conviction of former Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem, who was found guilty of stabbing his boyfriend, Trenton Cornell ...

Michael Madigan (D), whose formidable tenure as Speaker of the Illinois House ended amid a federal corruption investigation, ...

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld an Illinois state ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines enacted after a 2022 mass shooting in Chicago's Highland Park suburb ...

Federal appeals court upholds Illinois gun ban, finds no 2nd Amendment protection for assault weapons The court found that Illinois’ controversial gun law survived the first part of a two-step ...

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

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 ...