If you’re a Facebook user in Illinois, you may be one of 1.42 million people eligible to receive a check as part of a 7 year, $650 million, class action lawsuit against the company.

The lawsuit alleged that Facebook broke the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting and storing biometric data — physical characteristics — of users without their consent through features including facial recognition technology.

A tenth contempt of court order has been issued against Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith.

The contempt orders all stem from the department’s ongoing failures to place youth properly, such that they end up stuck in in psychiatric facilities long after they are ready to be released.

You might soon be able to ditch that front license plate in Illinois.

A bill proposed would change the vehicle code to remove the required plate.

Governor JB Pritzker will sign a bill into law Friday to crack down on smash-and-grab burglaries and other retail theft.

Governor Pritzker will sign a retail theft crime bill into law at Water Tower Place on the Magnificent Mile.

Illinois’ top financial official has banned local governments from using a state program to collect debt from students who have been ticketed for truancy, eliminating a burden for families struggling to pay steep fines.

A number of school districts around the state, meanwhile, have begun to scale back and reevaluate when to involve law enforcement in student discipline, among them a suburban Chicago high school where Black students have been disproportionately ticketed. That school, Bloom Trail High School in Steger, said Thursday that it will stop asking police to ticket students and move to other methods of discipline.

A new audit out is shedding light onto the ongoing issues at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

In the audit, which was conducted because of Ta’Naja’s law, the Office of the Auditor General found DCFS failed to comply with several requirements.