A year after a CBS station in Chicago aired an embarrassing tape showing a rival reporter wearing a bikini at the home of a source, the reporter has answered with…
Although backlogs have been reduced in recent years, there are 36 jail inmates in Cook County, Illinois, who have been awaiting trial for at least five years.
Most gun restrictions are likely to survive the U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday that found an individual right under the Second Amendment to own a handgun for self-defense in the…
Updated: The attorneys general of California and Illinois filed lawsuits today against Countrywide Financial Corp., claiming that the mortgage lender engaged in deceptive and unfair practices.
The owners of an apartment complex in suburban Chicago have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against local government officials. At issue is the “gated community” created by concrete police…
Right now, violators will only be warned by Addison authorities. But starting next year residents of this suburban Chicago town face a fine of up to $500 for putting a…
The lawyer rating website Avvo has filed a petition with the Illinois Supreme Court requesting a disk with information about all of the state’s lawyers.
After six years of delay, the child pornography trial of R&B star R. Kelly is not only under way but nearing a verdict. Testimony concluded in the Chicago case yesterday,…
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