CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Wednesday issued a blistering report about clergy sexual abuse, saying that Catholic dioceses in Illinois has not released the names of at least 500 clergy accused of sexually abusing children.
Ill. AG: ‘Obvious’ that church can’t police itself
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The quest to be the next Illinois attorney general is focusing on experience, ideology and gumption.
Democrat Kwame Raoul touts his legal and policymaking experience and says Republican Erika Harold is too rigid in her conservative views to effectively manage the post of chief law enforcement officer. Harold says she has the independence and initiative to take on public corruption and insists that her political viewpoints won't impede her defense of current law.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said her office will launch a criminal investigation of how Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration handled a three-year-old Legionnaire's disease crisis at a state-run veterans' home.
CHICAGO (AP) — Uber will pay $148 million and tighten data security after the ride-hailing company failed for a year to notify drivers that hackers had stolen their personal information, according to a settlement announced Wednesday.
Uber Technologies Inc. reached the agreement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia after a massive data breach in 2016. Instead of reporting it, Uber hid evidence of the theft and paid ransom to ensure the data wouldn't be misused.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago and state officials released a plan Friday to carry out far-reaching police reforms under federal court supervision more than a year after a U.S. Justice Department investigation found a longstanding history of civil rights violations by the police department.
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Monday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to shut down a Champaign-area bus company for allegedly discriminating against and harassing its customers and their families.
The lawsuit filed against Suburban Express Inc. and owner Dennis Toeppen comes after a December mass-marketing email that told riders they "won't feel like you're in China when you're on our buses."
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The race for Illinois attorney general has become a battle of who in the a crowded field of candidates is most politically and financially independent — and who's most willing to take on public corruption in a state with a long history of it.