As the coronavirus continues to spread and concerns grow about a wider U.S. outbreak, businesses and government agencies are scrambling to implement plans to mitigate the spread.

The Cook County Circuit Court is two weeks into its pandemic shutdown, and now the chief judge has ordered it extended a month longer to May 18.

Mary Karmeier will cast her vote in next week’s primary for David K. Overstreet — one of two Republican candidates vying for the seat currently held by her husband, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois extended its emergency orders on Monday afternoon, pushing non-critical matters back an extra four weeks.

Defendants in a wrongful conviction lawsuit cast the net too wide when they sought recordings of thousands of telephone calls the plaintiff made or received over a four-year period, a federal judge held.

A statewide Supreme Court order allowing chief circuit judges to postpone trials was partly in response to an effort by Illinois state’s attorneys, who relayed the need for relief from the state’s speedy trial law during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seven Aurora police officers do not have constitutional claims against the city for disclosing their personal information — including home addresses and Social Security numbers — to a felon they helped imprison, a federal judge held.

Attorneys now have double the amount of time to file court documents in state appeals courts and in the Illinois Supreme Court, according to an order released Tuesday by the high court.