Lafontant was born Jewel Carter Stradford in 1922 to a prominent African American family. Her father, C. Francis Stradford, ...

The lead federal prosecutor in the corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is stepping down.

The Fox Valley Park District’s Job Fair Saturday in Aurora drew a crowd looking to fill around 350 seasonal positions with ...

The Liberty Justice Center filed three lawsuits on behalf of government employees against their public sector unions.

Chicago’s top federal prosecutor for public corruption has submitted his resignation effective March 14, a spokesman for the ...

A federal judge and native Peorian has been named Bradley University’s 13th president. The university’s Board of Trustees on ...

BMO Financial Corp. secured a court order sending litigation over how it handles forfeited money in its 401(k) plan to a ...

School officials in Illinois cite several factors that make it hard to fill vacant teacher positions, including low pay, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been granted judicial leave to intervene in the American Alliance for Equal Rights’ (AAER) suit against ...

The U.S. District Court has selected Rockford lawyer Michael Iasparro to be northern Illinois' next U.S. magistrate judge. The court announced its decision Friday. Upon completion of a background ...