Illinois Supreme Court

A state appeals court has agreed with a ruling that Gov. Rod Blagojevich must make public federal subpoenas received by his administration. The legal decision, which was handed down Wednesday, upheld a trial court ruling that called on Blagojevich to...

Steven Hunter is out after less than 18 months as chief executive of one of the Chicago area's largest hospital operators. Provena Health, a Mokena-based operator of six hospitals and 16 long-term care and senior residential facilties in Illinois said it...

Sprint Nextel Corp. was granted a 180-day extension to comply with an Illinois judge's order to shed Nextel operations in four Midwestern states because they infringe the rights of IPCS Inc. The Illinois Supreme Court, in a ruling posted Wednesday on its...

What happens when you're playing a losing poker hand? Do you wisely fold and cut your losses? Or do you keep throwing chips in the pot and hope to prevail by bluffing your opponents? No, this editorial isn't about poker strategy. It's about health...

A Cook County judge has submitted her resignation after she was issued a disorderly conduct citation following a recent traffic incident in which police said she used racial slurs. The resignation of Marcella Lipinski, 66, who serves in the Bridgeview...

Tribune staff report Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration will start paying health-care providers again after the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday put a temporary hold on a judge's order to shut down an expansion of the state's FamilyCare program....

As South Siders go, they could scarcely be more different. One born and bred in the city of Chicago, whose roots reach so deep that he attended the 1932 World Series at Wrigley Field, and his family once owned the downtown hotel now known as the Hilton...

Justice John Paul Stevens jokes with Justice Antonin Scalia at a dinner in Chicago in May. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast) by James Oliphant As South Siders go, they could scarcely be more different. One born and bred in the city......

DuPage Judge Stephen Culliton has been elected the county's chief judge for the next three years. Culliton, 64, was elected Wednesday by the county's 15 Circuit Court judges to complete the term of Judge Ann Jorgensen, who was appointed in June to the...

Donald C. Hudson, the chief judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit, has been named to an appeals bench, the Illinois Supreme Court announced Monday. In January, Hudson will replace retiring Judge R. Peter Grometer on the 2nd District Appellate Court, a nine-...

SPRINGFIELD — Two things are certain in the case of Joseph Furio, 15, of Park Ridge: The paramedics who were called to his home left without providing medical care, and the boy was dead by morning. Now Furio's parents are getting a chance to...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich's agenda was dealt a major blow Friday after a state appellate court ruled he doesn't have the power to expand state-subsidized health care without lawmakers' approval. The decision upholds a ruling that found Blagojevich had...