CHICAGO (WLS) -- A downstate federal judge has ruled Illinois' assault weapons ban unconstitutional on Friday. The judge in ...

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn is holding off on enforcing his ruling for 30 days to allow Illinois leaders time to ...

Republicans are gearing up to lock in their remake of the judiciary under President-elect Donald Trump and a new Senate ...

Illinois' assault weapons ban was ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District Judge, a decision that will be appealed by the ...

A federal judge has overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that ...

The highest court in the land is the state’s Supreme Court, comprised of seven justices representing five different districts ...

Justice Joy Cunningham beat out primary challenger Judge Jesse Reyes in March and is running unopposed this election.

A man was arrested Thursday in the fatal shooting of two workers at Chicago's popular Navy Pier tourist attraction. The ...

Leaders of the Legislature's Democratic supermajorities say they could advance additional protections for abortion rights, ...

President-elect Donald Trump, who moved the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically rightward in his first term, may get a chance to ...

Federal judges in Chicago and elsewhere have indeed struggled with recent Supreme Court rulings over the nation’s gun laws, ...