A lawsuit accusing a Florida man of defrauding an Illinois woman he promised to marry does not belong in the courts in this state, a federal judge ruled.

Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for ...

A Cook County jury awarded a combined $2 million verdict to two Metra employees who were injured when a passing train crashed into the stationary train they were on.

Where a defendant filed a motion to quash service of process, they are permitted to file an answer or counterclaim, and failure to do so in a timely fashion is not a due process violation.

Chicago Ald. Danny Solis sat in powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s office to tell him what he’d privately known for months: after 23 years in the Chicago City Council, he wasn’t going ...

A music corporation cannot be forced to come to Chicago to answer allegations that it and other defendants failed to receive ...

A former Chicago Public Schools teacher can pursue a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and retaliation, a federal judge ...

Google, already facing a possible breakup of the company over its ubiquitous search engine, is fighting to beat back another attack by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging monopolistic conduct, ...

Then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis had already been cooperating with the FBI for a little more than a year in June 2017 when he ...

Where defendant is charged with two offenses from the same act that share a felony class, minimum sentence, and term of MSR, maximum sentence determines which is more serious.

A state watchdog has identified at least $7.2 million in fraudulent claims and more than 275 instances of misconduct by state employees accused of bilking a federal program designed to help businesses ...

A man who was injured when his car hit a concrete structure on a bridge lost a bid to have his negligence lawsuit against ...