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A Catholic school teacher who was injured last year in a hit-and-run that left another teacher dead in Orland Park filed a lawsuit against the retired priest charged in the crash.

The City of Chicago is suing a Rockford-based coffee company for trademark infringement, claiming the company’s logo is an imitation of the Chicago Fire Department’s symbol.

Three flight attendants are suing Chicago-based Boeing, claiming they were sickened by toxic air that seeped into the cabin due to a design flaw on some of the company’s airplanes.

A class action lawsuit claiming Chicago Public Schools discriminated against black educators when it announced layoffs in 2011 has been dismissed.

An Indiana man charged with negligent homicide in his young granddaughter’s fatal fall from a cruise ship’s open window in Puerto Rico leaned out of that window for several seconds before he lifted the child up to it and she fell, the cruise operator alleges in a court filing.

A man is suing the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Catholic Bishop of Chicago and the Pope John Paul II Catholic School after his son was allegedly stabbed in the eye with a pencil by a teacher’s child during an art class at the Brighton Park elementary school.

The owners of embattled River North bar and restaurant Bottled Blonde are suing the City of Chicago and asking a judge to declare the city’s noise ordinance unconstitutional.

A district judge has ordered three Illinois prison officials to read transcripts from a lawsuit that accuses the state prison system of mistreating transgender people, saying she is concerned the state agency is not taking the plaintiffs' complaints seriously.

Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert is suing the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and Chicago Lakeshore Hospital on behalf of children who were housed there in DCFS care, alleging that DCFS “turned a blind eye” to sexual and physical abuse inflicted upon children at the...

The family of a man who died at a Jewel-Osco store in Lakeview after being detained by security for allegedly shoplifting, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the company.