Here's what to know about the 20-state lawsuit seeking block the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education.

The DOE announced Tuesday that it would be eliminating nearly half of its workforce as part of its "final mission" to dismantle the department.

Lafontant was born Jewel Carter Stradford in 1922 to a prominent African American family. Her father, C. Francis Stradford, ...

For the first time, Waukesha County prosecutors have connected a teenage boy to the death of his mother and stepfather. Prosecutors now say 17-year-old Nikita Casap shot and killed his mother Tatiana ...

Steven D. Weinhoeft was appointed to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois on February 28, 2025, by ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

The search for Chicago’s 42nd U.S. attorney comes at a significant moment in history for an office long extolled as a model ...

The administration is required to provide advance notice of mass layoffs to employees and states so that states can mobilize ...

Attorney General Kwame Raoul obtained two preliminary injunctions against the Trump administration's policies to freeze ...

CHICAGO Attorney General Kwame Raoul today joined a coalition of eight attorneys general in opposition to the Trump ...

When someone is taken into custody in a courtroom, it is usually a defendant, not their lawyer. But Chicago attorney Cierra ...