With just hours before the end of the 103rd General Assembly, the Illinois Senate has approved a measure requiring police to ...

Under one of the few significant mandates of the controversial 2021 SAFE-T Act that was backed by both advocates for police ...

Hundreds of new laws take effect in 2025, impacting the minimum wage and how Illinoisans can get IDs, cancel their gym memberships, manage subscription renewals, clear their criminal records, use ...

A man survived being shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an incoming train in New York City on New Year’s Eve and is expected ...

Starting on January 1st, participants in the Adult Redeploy Illinois program will be reclassified from “offenders” to ...

A former Illinois state legislator says fears about the end of cash bail are now coming true as Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart ...

Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those ...

(The Center Square) – New Illinois laws that go into effect Jan. 1 will place more restrictions on electronic cigarettes. One law prohibits the advertising, marketing or promoting of an ...

(The Center Square) – Around a dozen new laws go into effect Jan. 1 making changes to Illinois’ criminal justice system. Beginning New Year’s Day, law enforcement training will have a course ...

Of the 293 new Illinois laws taking effect in the new year, one prohibits corporal punishment in nonpublic elementary and secondary schools. State Rep. Margaret Croke, D-Chicago, said the American ...