Wallace "Gator" Bradley says Mark Maxson signed a 2013 contract for help in Maxson's quest for freedom. Now Bradley is in court trying to get a share of Maxson's legal settlement stemming from the ...

A Melrose, Illinois, man on mandatory supervised release from the Illinois Department of Corrections was arrested Thursday by ...

Sheila Murphy was a Cook County public defender, a private criminal defense attorney and Cook County’s first female presiding judge.

Not only is the Trump administration modeling its lawsuit on victories won by the Obama administration, the litigation is the ...

The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday in Springfield a 2021 lawsuit by Waukegan Potawatomi Casino challenging the license issued to Full House by the Illinois Gaming Board was ...

Chicago’s top eviction law firms filed at least 65,800 cases since 2017, with Rob Kahn staying on top as he navigates ...

FBI agents arrested Arnolda Jimenez in the killing of his newlywed wife. Her body was found in a bathtub in her wedding dress.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A judge will be transferred out of the Domestic Violence Division of Cook County Circuit Court at his own request, following harsh criticism after the judge released a man who ...

The city is asking a Cook County judge to reconsider a ruling that an internal panel must meet publicly, saying it would ...

A Cook County judge was reassigned ... was the subject of an order issued Friday by the Circuit Court’s Executive Committee, which convened to handle the matter after Chief Judge Timothy ...