Government attorneys say the corruption conviction Wednesday of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was historic.

The decade-long FBI investigation that led to Madigan’s trial roiled local politics and changed the course of Illinois ...

On February 6, 2025, the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois declined to issue a preliminary injunction to stop an ...

It appears to be the first Justice Department lawsuit against local officials for allegedly interfering with the Trump ...

"The statute’s plain language clearly suggests that § 1831a(j)(1) is meant to ensure that out-of-state state banks can compete with nationally chartered banks. This means that because the court ...

Ceferino Espinoza Angulo, 43, allegedly worked with others to obtain fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ecstasy in Mexico for distribution in the U.S., according to an indictment Monday.

LKQ Corporation (LKQ) filed suit against Robert Rutledge, its former plant manager, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District ...

The caseload is piling up and a new administration in Washington means fresh demands for federal prosecutors here in Chicago ...

The federal lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local ...

A high-ranking member of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel has been charged in Chicago with drug conspiracy, accused of trafficking fentanyl and other narcotics into the United States.

The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleges that multiple state and local laws are “designed to and in fact interfere with and discriminate against ...