The process of helping former felons who have turned their lives around get a fresh start and find work often starts with getting criminal records expunged.

Nearly a year after April Perry was nominated to be Chicago’s first female U.S. attorney, President Biden has changed tack in the face of blanket opposition from a single Republican senator ...

There are scores of good personal injury lawyers in Chicago. Many firms take a national ... Balesteri has a distinguished career winning substantial settlements and verdicts in personal injury ...

Perry has instead been appointed to the federal bench. But it's beyond disgraceful that Vance, a Trump acolyte, used the Senate's complex rules to block Perry from becoming the first woman in the top ...

A Republican senator seeking political payback on the president and his Justice Department had stonewalled April Perry's nomination.

CHICAGO Attorney General Kwame Raoul, alongside 23 attorneys general, filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

A man killed in a traffic stop last month when plainclothes Chicago police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times was shot 13 times, according to an autopsy report released Thursday.

Longtime local barber Tyrone Isom Jr is claiming the mayor's office improperly denied his permit to expand his business to a new commercial venue in the Chicago suburb of Dolton.

An autopsy shows a man killed in a traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 rounds was shot 13 times ...

The Lake County state's attorney, joined by local and state officials, announced a new "violence reduction plan" Tuesday afternoon that aims to prevent gun violence in the Waukegan, North Chicago and ...

Karen Conti, a lawyer who represented serial killer John Wayne Gacy during his last death row appeals, said she believes Gacy killed dozens more ...

Attorney Jack Wagoner, who helped successfully challenged Arkansas' ban on same-sex marriage, has died. He was 62. An attorney who worked with Wagoner said he died Tuesday in Little Rock ...