Through May alone, the City Council has already approved $145.5 million in taxpayer payments to settle lawsuits alleging ...

Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars were approved on Wednesday to pay out settlements to people suing the city of Chicago.

The city of Chicago continues to prosecute protesters, despite mounting court losses and little punishment for those found ...

The city of Chicago said Tuesday it would not oppose the oil companies' emergency motion to temporarily keep the case in ...

But Chicago-Kent law professor Burstein said the recent rulings seem to signal mounting resistance, at least among Chicago federal judges, to Schedule A cases. Because these cases were often ...

Jussie Smollett has agreed to make a $50,000 charitable donation to settle a legal dispute with the city of Chicago. This ...

A Seventh Circuit case over the concealed-carry of guns on Chicago trains and buses poses the latest opportunity to define ...

Jussie Smollett is bringing to a close the high-profile case in which he was charged with staging a crime hoax.

Crumes said the Chicago law firm should be fired by the council. "The city needs to hire a professional," she said. Follow Ken de la Bastide on Twitter @KendelaBastide, or call 765-640-4863.

In both cases, the special collections unit moved ... and tracking down owners,” said Mary Richardson-Lowry, Chicago’s top legal advisor. She wouldn’t disclose the identity of the other ...

As the migrant crisis develops in Chicago, the Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic has offered ... which asylum claims were the strongest so that they could decide which cases to take on. The clinic ...

It’s a legal process in which a court orders someone ... greatest potential outcome for all parties in these specific cases?” Chicago isn’t the only place wrestling with such questions ...