7th Circuit tosses retaliation suit against South Suburban College

Appellate panel affirms $770,000 judgment against railroad

State Rep. Anna Moeller (right), D-Elgin, speaks on the House floor during debate on her bill to enact several reforms to the state’s insurance industry. The bill is an initiative of Gov. JB Pritzker, who is seated behind Moeller. The measure passed with bipartisan support.

Pritzker’s health insurance reforms clear House

Senate advances bill to ban food additives linked to health problems

Initial suits over weed killer paraquat dismissed

Settlement for sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with little

Historic jury selection highlights key role of social media vetting

Boeing quality engineer Sam Salehpour, from left, Ed Pierson, executive director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former Boeing engineer; Joe Jacobsen, aerospace engineer and technical adviser to the Foundation for Aviation Safety; and Shawn Pruchnicki, professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, are sworn in before a Senate committee Wednesday. AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

Boeing put under Senate scrutiny over safety culture

NEW YORK (AP) — A former prominent neurological researcher at Yale and New York Universities avoided prison time for stealing research funds, but a judge said he must play piano for indigent elderly people in Connecticut to make amends.The unusual sentence for Dr. Alexander Neumeister was handed out Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres.Neumeister must play piano an hour at least twice weekly for the next few months at group facilities in Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford and Waterbury, the Manhattan judge …

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7th Circuit tosses retaliation suit against South Suburban College

Appellate panel affirms $770,000 judgment against railroad

Pritzker’s health insurance reforms clear House

Senate advances bill to ban food additives linked to health problems

Initial suits over weed killer paraquat dismissed

Settlement for sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with little

Historic jury selection highlights key role of social media vetting

Boeing put under Senate scrutiny over safety culture

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Illinois Supreme Court to hear Smollett appeal, 10 others

Judge declines to quash subpoena over police records about school incident

12 judges appointed to Cook County Circuit Court

Google to purge records in Chrome privacy settlement

Mariyana Spyropoulos says she’d be change agent as court clerk

Pritzker names new head of state insurance oversight agency

Special counsel says Biden ‘willfully’ disclosed classified materials

Ken Paxton reaches deal to end securities fraud charges

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Pritzker’s health insurance reforms clear House

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