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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office has reached an agreement to settle a state civil rights lawsuit against a bus company accused of discriminating against Asian students at the University of Illinois.

The city of Chicago has now formally filed a lawsuit against "Empire" star Jussie Smollett in hopes of recovering $130,000 in costs police say they incurred investigating what they call a hate-crime hoax.

An attorney for Jussie Smollett has written a letter warning that if Chicago follows through on its vow to sue the "Empire" actor for the cost of the investigation into his claim that he was attacked, he'll demand sworn testimony from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the police chief and others.

The city of Chicago’s Law Department says it’s preparing a lawsuit against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett because he has refused to pay for the cost of a police investigation into his false claims he was attacked by homophobic racists.

It is the first lawsuit filed on behalf of an American killed in the Ethiopian 737 Max 8 crash and it was filed here in Chicago.

Despite charges being dropped Tuesday in the Jussie Smollett case, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other Chicago politicians are looking for ways to make him pay for the time and money spent on the investigation.

A man is suing a grocery store and restaurant in Archer Heights on the Southwest Side after allegedly getting sick from a reported salmonella outbreak last month.

The mother of three of the ten children who died in an apartment fire last August in Little Village has filed suit against the city, Ald. George Cardenas (12th), the building’s owners and a family member who was supposed to be watching the kids.

A lawsuit claims that Oak Park police acted recklessly by chasing a fleeing car that crashed and killed two people in another vehicle in the western suburb.

The Illinois attorney general’s office is asking a Cook County judge to shut down some income tax preparers connected to Nu Republic and Refund Republic.