On the House floor Tuesday, state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, said the state’s gun ban was deemed unconstitutional by ...

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

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.

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

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and an ally are on trial for a racketeering conspiracy. Madigan is accused of ...

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

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

CHICAGO (CBS) – For five days, one of the star witnesses in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal ...

Perry was nominated by the Democratic president to serve as a U.S. district court judge in Illinois. The U.S. Constitution ...

With Republicans set to take control of the chamber on Jan. 3, the Senate on Tuesday held a confirmation vote on one of Biden's judicial nominees - former prosecutor April Perry - for the first time ...

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs filed a motion Tuesday requesting that his accusers in a federal sex trafficking ... The motion requests that U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian of the ...

April M. Perry has become President Joe Biden's 214th successful nominee, with the majority of those appointees being women ...