Following almost a year of legal battles and fierce public opposition from many customers, water utility Aqua Illinois is set to raise its rates in 2025.

The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a federal requirement that cigarette packages and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking.

Where a complaint has been dismissed twice for any reason, the plaintiff has no right to refile under section 13-217 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

On Aug. 2, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Senate Bill 2979, amending certain provisions of the Biometric Information Privacy Act. It became effective immediately. Three months in, several aspects ...

Jackson Lewis P.C. named Kirsten A. Milton managing principal of its Chicago office. She represents management in labor and employment issues with a focus on complex litigation.

It’s been a month since the jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial last heard the ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Shannon P. O’Malley narrowly lost his bid for reelection to the bench, securing 57.9% of the vote, mere margins away from the 60% vote requirement to keep his seat.

Chicago businessman Juan Ochoa had heard little more than crickets in the six months since then-Illinois House Speaker ...

A health care provider did not violate the constitutional and statutory rights of a nurse when it fired her for refusing to either get a COVID-19 vaccine or submit to weekly testing for the virus, a ...

The Illinois Supreme Court published nearly a dozen opinions Thursday, including a ruling on a challenge to the interpretation of the Illinois Citizen Participation Act in a defamation suit against ...

The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica ...

Chicago-based firms Romanucci & Blandin and Washington Law Group were part of a trial team that obtained a $98.6 million verdict in Texas after a jury ruled in favor of the family of a man fatally ...