In April 2017, a top staffer in then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s office was looking to leave his job after a combined nearly 18 years working for the speaker’s office

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Hinkel has spent more than two decades investigating police and prosecutorial misconduct in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

If Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas wins, he may owe it all to his law-and-order message. Meanwhile, the North Carolina Supreme Court and promoting partisan gerrymandering, Doug La Follette steps down and more.

Antonio Moore, 25, of Indianapolis is accused of robbing a Lisle bank at gunpoint in February.

Federal labor law preempts right of workers to sue under the state law if they’re covered by a collective bargaining agreement, Illinois Supreme Court rules.

In 2019, the skylines of many American downtowns were sparkling with new construction. Hudson Yards in New York, the Frost Tower in San Antonio, San Francisco’s

Photo caption: REPRESENTATIVE JONATHAN JACKSON brings U.S. Secretary Xavier Becerra to Kennedy King College for a roundtable on the impact of gun violence,

Rikke Dierssen-Morice Partner, Blank Rome LLP Chicago, IL, March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Rikke Dierssen-Morice has joined the firm’s nationally recognized Insurance Recovery practice. An experienced litigator representing commercial policyholders in the United States and abroad, Rikke has successfully obtained multimillion dollar recoveries for clients in state and federal courts. She will be based in the firm’s Chicago office. Rikke’s arrival cont

Amid changes in hours and strategies, many still wonder about the future of urban life three years into the pandemic.

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Two local cases, as well as a series of detention hearings in Plano and Sherman, provide the most comprehensive insight to date on how the deadly and outlawed…

AUSTIN, Texas: New legislation is heating up the long-running cold war between Texas’ relatively progressive cities and its GOP-dominated legislature. Local officials across Texas are worried that far-reaching state bills could roll back their attempts to ensure construction workers get rest breaks in Texas’ searing heat, run no-kill animal shelters and maintain local water quality. GOP sponsors…

Democrats are ramping up attacks on Republicans over proposed spending cuts, pulling out the stops to frame the GOP as the party of “draconian cuts.” As budget season kicks off around Capitol Hill, Democrats are getting a head start sharpening their knives, leaning on numbers to bolster their case against GOP-backed proposals and seeking to…

Democratic infighting over a bipartisan bill that passed in 2018 to roll back part of the landmark Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act is the latest political problem facing Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Liberals led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are pushing for a vote on legislation to unwind a key piece of…

Chicago’s closely watched mayoral race is shining a spotlight on the racial divisions that have long characterized the city. Brandon Johnson, a progressive Black man, and Paul Vallas, a moderate white man, have largely seen their support fall along racial lines. Johnson, former Cook County commissioner, has managed to secure support from predominantly Black neighborhoods,…

In Chicago and elsewhere, gun possession arrests are rising as shootings go unsolved.

The United States loses thousands of people every year from drug overdoses and drug poisonings. Most of those deaths are related to the use of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.

Chicago will begin testing parking enforcement technology and smart loading zones following an ordinance the City Council passed March 15. The technology will automatically issue tickets for…