Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is adamant the state must appeal a federal judge’s ruling that its gun and magazine ban is ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A federal judge got a promotion from a magistrate to full district court judge on Wednesday. U.S. Sens.

Megan Valentine, accused of killing husband Michael Valentine, makes her first court appearance on the same day of his ...

Republicans confirmed judges during the final weeks of Donald Trump’s first term. But the president-elect says Democrats ...

It took U.S. Judge Stephen McGlynn 178 pages to explain why, but the bottom line is that the downstate federal judge has declared Gov. J.B. Pritzker's highly touted assault-weapons ban ...

Rep. Dan Caulkins is calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to stop appealing rulings on the state's assault weapons ban.

Former assistant U.S. attorney April M. Perry will join the federal trial bench in Chicago following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of her nomination as a federal judge.

The former prosecutor whose nomination to become Chicago’s first female U.S. attorney was blocked by Vice President-elect JD ...

A panel of federal judges is weighing whether to overturn a Cook County ban on semiautomatic weapons in a case that could ...

In August, Judge Mary M. Rowland dismissed nearly 200 plaintiffs ... that is pending in the Northern District Court of ...

Senate Democrats are racing against the clock to confirm as many of President Biden's judicial nominees as possible before ...

As the Senate’s lame-duck session begins, President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are racing against the clock to confirm ...