Celeste Bott

Monsanto Co. has reached a deal to pay $120 million to the state of Illinois to resolve a lawsuit seeking to hold the company liable for polychlorinated biphenyls pollution into the state's air, water and soil, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has announced.

The nation's five largest egg producers have been using avian flu as a cover for their yearslong conspiracy to artificially inflate their prices without fear of being undercut in the market, a proposed class of consumers claimed Tuesday in Illinois federal court.

Counsel for a sterilization company and its former parent seeking defense costs for hundreds of lawsuits over ethylene oxide emissions at a suburban Chicago facility urged the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to find a pollution exclusion in their insurance policy doesn't apply to emissions allowed under a state permit, insisting the policyholders are not polluters under Illinois law or "in the general sense of the word."

A Seventh Circuit judge on Friday pressed counsel for a building owner, which opposes a Chicago law requiring owners of foreclosed rental properties to pay tenants a relocation fee or offer a new lease, to address the limits of its argument that those fees are an unconstitutional taking of its property.

An Illinois jury on Thursday awarded $27.5 million in damages to a man who was severely injured in a motorcycle crash and who had to have four surgeries to repair the fractures in his leg.

An Illinois federal judge Wednesday appeared amenable to ordering longer-term restrictions on force immigration agents can use on press and peaceful demonstrators in the Chicago area, disagreeing with a Justice Department attorney's argument that witnesses who experienced force continued to protest and report, saying their testimony suggested a "chilling effect."

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction limiting the measures of force immigration agents can use on peaceful protesters, bystanders and the press, saying the forceful tactics they've used so far "shocks the conscience" and deeming the Trump administration's evidence justifying them "simply not credible."

Four people who suffered burns from a fire during a corporate event at a Navy Pier rooftop restaurant have sued its management company and general manager in Illinois state court, claiming their negligence led to some of them being set ablaze, causing serious injuries and emotional distress.

An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday granted final approval for a $12.1 million class action settlement in a Biometric Information Privacy Act dispute between Speedway LLC and nearly 7,700 current and former gas station employees.

An Illinois state judge has refused to dismiss a private equity firm's malpractice suit accusing Baker McKenzie of botching a client's bid to reacquire a Russian coal mine, saying the plaintiffs have sufficiently pled claims sustainable under both Illinois and Russian law at this stage of the case.