Illinois Domestic Workers Claim Victory in 5-Year Campaign For Basic Workplace Protections
Friday’s bill signing makes Illinois 7th state to provide domestic workers with legal protections Decades after the passage of...
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Attorney General Madigan Joins 18 States Calling For Limits on Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
Multistate Letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Requesting Restoration of Consumer Protections CHICAGO, IL ─ Illinois Attorney General Lisa...
Treasurer Frerichs Holds Statewide Hearings On Life Insurers That Do Not Pay Death Benefits
Kemper Invited to Participate, Testify on its Non-Payment Actions First Public Hearing Aug. 17 in Normal, Illinois SPRINGFIELD, IL...
Department of Justice Expands Services for Crime Victims
New Federal Rule Helps States Plan for Historic Funding Increases The Department of Justice today published a final rule expanding...
129-Year-Old Black Child Welfare Agency Struggling to Survive
Launches online crowdfunding campaign at www.gofundme.com/csichild Philadelphia, PA (BlackNews.com) -- Childrens Service Inc. (CSI) is a 129-year old child...
Clifford Law Offices Obtains $3.3 Million Verdict Against Northwestern Hospital for Overdosing Father and Husband, Killing Him
A Cook County Circuit Court jury returned a verdict for $3.3 million against Northwestern Hospital for administering a 56-year-old man...
Former Community Health Clinic CFO Involved in Complicated Scheme to Defraud the Government Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison
BIRMINGHAM – A federal judge sentenced the former chief financial officer of an Alabama non-profit health clinic for the poor...
Kirk Statement on Arrests in Cook County Sex Trafficking Sting
CHICAGO, IL - US senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) issued the following statement after reports of 230 arrests related to sex...
NAACP National President Cornell William Brooks Arrested After Sit-In
ROANOKE, Va. – NAACP National President and CEO Cornell William Brooks was charged with trespassing by local police after refusing...
Senators To Secretary Kerry: Taxpayers Deserve Truth On Cash Transfer To Iran
Iran’s Defense Budget Indicates Expanding Military, Nefarious Operations at Americans’ Expense ROCKFORD, IL – U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), David Perdue...
