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An Effingham County judge temporarily blocked Illinois’ recently enacted ban on high-powered weapons and high-capacity magazines from being enforced on more than 850 people and a handful of licensed gun dealers. → Read More
Children who become wards of the state in Illinois have for years been wrongly confined to juvenile detention after a judge orders their release, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. → Read More
Illinois’ flagship gun rights organization filed a federal lawsuit alleging the newly signed state law that prohibits high-powered guns and large-capacity ammunition magazines violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. → Read More
Illinois’ sweeping ban on high-powered firearms and large-capacity ammunition magazines is facing at least two legal challenges and pushback from dozens of county sheriffs who say they won’t uphold the law. → Read More
The sweeping ban on high-powered guns and high-capacity magazines that became law in Illinois this month is certain to face legal challenges, and experts are unsure it can hold up. → Read More
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias takes over the office held for 24 years by Jesse White, and promises service upgrades and other improvements in his 100-day plan. → Read More
New 103rd General Assembly has Democrats with record 78-40 majority in the House and 40-19 in the Senate. → Read More
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police. → Read More
A Kankakee County judge has found a key provision of Illinois’ sweeping criminal justice law is unconstitutional, potentially rolling back a controversial measure that would eliminate the use of cash bail as of New Year’s Day, according to a copy of the judge’s ruling obtained by the Tribune. → Read More
Guns rights advocates criticized a proposal to ban a wide array of guns and high capacity magazines in Illinois as a “dangerous” measure that will make criminals out of law-abiding gun owners → Read More
After months of blistering attacks from Republicans, Democratic lawmakers came together during the final legislative session of the year to approve changes aimed at clarifying their criminal justice overhaul. → Read More
The Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature approved a series of changes to year-and-a-half-old criminal justice reform law just one month before some of its key provisions are slated to take effect. → Read More
Illinois lawmakers have submitted proposed changes to controversial criminal justice measures slated to take effect on New Year’s Day. → Read More
Gov. J.B. Pritzker unveiled a bipartisan agreement to plug a nearly $1.4 billion hole in the state’s pandemic-depleted unemployment insurance trust fund. → Read More
State Rep. Tony McCombie says Republicans have to reach out to Democrats as she takes over a GOP caucus that was battered in the recent election. → Read More
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s top education official, whose oversight of the state’s schools became a campaign issue during the recent election, plans to retire early next year. → Read More
Illinois state legislators head into the year's final session, with possible tweaks to a controversial criminal justice law on the agenda. → Read More
When Gov. J.B. Pritzker claimed victory Tuesday night for a second term as Illinois governor, he also presented himself as a possible 2024 candidate for the White House if President Joe Biden opts not to seek a second term. → Read More
The most conservative GOP nominee for Illinois governor in generations says people have 'had enough.' → Read More
The Chicago Police officer who shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo during a foot chase in 2021 is facing firing after an investigation concluded the shooting violated department policy. → Read More