Nineteen new lawsuits have been filed against the city in an alleged police corruption spree that put a former CPD sergeant in prison several years ago and has led to more than 60 convictions being overturned and counting.
The estate of a man killed in a crash involving a city salt truck and another car last month in the Far South Side Hegewisch neighborhood has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against one of the other drivers.
A group of African-American employees of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has filed a class-action lawsuit charging institutionalized racism and accusing officials of participating in or condoning racial harassment.
The husband of a woman killed in a murder-suicide last June outside of a restaurant in southwest suburban Orland Park is suing the estate of the shooter.
A man is suing the City of Chicago and two police officers alleging they falsely arrested him to cover up their use of brute force when tasering him while he was partially naked in 2016.
The parents of a Florida teenager killed when a Telsa sedan crashed and caught fire last year are suing the electric car company alleging that the battery pack on its electric Model S is defective and can erupt into intense fires.
It is a federal lawsuit that has moved through six decades: the Gautreaux case, a class-action suit filed in 1966 against the Chicago Housing Authority alleging racial discrimination.
Wage-theft allegations against a restaurant owner claim hours were routinely erased from workers' paychecks, many weren't paid overtime for working more than 40 hours, and they weren't given final paychecks after leaving.