When retired federal judge David H. Coar looks back on his career, he says that a presidential appointment to a highly prestigious seat on the federal bench was not always his goal.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker accused the Trump administration this week of continuing to withhold nearly $1.9 billion from Illinois state agencies, nonprofits and small businesses, despite the fact that an order to freeze those funds was rescinded after a federal judge issued a ruling blocking the freeze.

A man who maintains he was denied mental health services after he attempted to commit suicide in an Illinois prison facility for mentally ill inmates has stated a case for violations of his rights under federal disability law, a federal judge held.