Sangamon County

Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois has petitioned a Sangamon County judge to let them join a lawsuit against the state seeking protection from anti-discrimination …...

A Sangamon County judge heard oral arguments today from lawyers representing four Catholic Charities agencies who urged him to prevent the state from severing a …...

A Sangamon County judge ruled Thursday that the state can decline to renew its contracts with Catholic Charities in Illinois to provide publicly funded foster …...

Illinois' 44 regional school superintendents have gone to court to get paid by Gov. Pat Quinn. The Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools filed …...

A judge in Sangamon County, Illinois has ruled that the state does not have to renew its foster and adoption contracts with Catholic Charities. Illinois ended the over $30 million dollars in annual contracts last month after Catholic Charities said it...

A lawyer representing Catholic Charities in Illinois has now said they will appeal a circuit judge's recent decision saying that the state was not required to continue contracting adoption and foster services with the religious organization in four...

Lawyers for Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Springfield, Peoria and Joliet are seeking an emergency injunction that would protect religious agencies who turn away …...

Posted by Monique Garcia at 2:05 p.m. Voter turnout is expected to hover around 50 percent statewide, the state's top elections official said today. Dan White, executive director of the Illinois State Board of Elections, described that level of turnout......

Posted by Rick Pearson and Ray Long at 3:25 p.m.; updated at 4:13 p.m. The day before he's expected to accept the Republican governor nomination, state Sen. Bill Brady today tried to take a swing at Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn......

Springfield powerbroker William Cellini was sentenced to a year and day in prison today for his role in corruption tied to imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Cellini, 77, a longtime Republican lobbyist and fundraiser, had operated for years...

The owner of a downstate dog training facility has agreed to refund thousands of dollars to families who were promised autism service dogs for their children but never received them, according to a consent judgment expected to be filed Thursday. The...

The Proposition 5 debate over what's known as the Equal Rights Initiative has certainly been heated. But for all the back-and-forth between the Yes on 5 campaign, One Anchorage, and the No on 5 campaign, Protect Your Rights, representatives from the...