The Latest Breaking News from Virginia Kendall

The request comes just two weeks after the same court, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, declined to take similar action when a federal judge in Chicago refused to block the law.

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn made clear that his ruling is “not a final resolution” of the matter, and nothing in his order “prevents the state from confronting firearm-related violence” through “a wide array” of other laws.

CHICAGO — A downstate judge on Friday struck down the ban on high-powered firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines that Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law earlier this year, a ruling the Illinois attorney general’s office immediately appealed to the state Supreme Court.

The decision appears to be the first from a federal judge considering whether the ban comports with a U.S. Court Supreme decision.

A federal judge has declined to dismiss an antitrust case against several turkey suppliers including agribusiness giants Cargill and Hormel Foods Corp.

Burke faces charges of using his seat on the City Council to steer business to his law firm in schemes that involved the Old Post Office, a Burger King and a Northwest Side redevelopment project.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall sentenced Elias Quinones-Figueroa to more than 12 years in prison for stealing a 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe in 2020 while pointing a .22-caliber pistol at the victim.

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors are asking for up to 34 years in prison for a former Indian movie producer who pleaded guilty to running a Chicago-based sex-trafficking ring that lured unsuspecting young actresses from their home country to the U.S., where authorities said they were forced into prostitution, physically abused…

A new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday (written with the help of ex-prosecutor Andrew S. Boutros), following up on their Bloomberg Law piece from May 11, lays out some possible bases for the prosecution: Consider Section 1512 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it…