Sources: CNN
Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker announces that the state will end its COVID-19 emergency proclamation after three years beginning on May 11. 2023-01-31
The United States Census Bureau announces the country's total population to be over 331 million people, thereby marking the second-slowest growth rate in its history. It also announces that Texas will gain two congressional seats during the redistricting process, with Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon gaining one seat each; California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia will each lose a seat. 2021-04-26
Illinois reports their first case of a more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a person who traveled to the United Kingdom and the Middle East and was later diagnosed with COVID-19. 2021-01-15
United States federal judge Richard Posner has announced his retirement after three decades of service on the bench of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Justice Posner has written more than 3,300 opinions from the bench. 2017-09-1
Chicago, Illinois police officer, Jason Van Dyke, enters a not guilty plea regarding the charges of the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald. 2015-12-29
The United States Department of Justice will investigate the Chicago, Illinois police department. Long concerned with Chicago police department practices, the investigation is precipitated by the recent release of a video of the shooting death of Laquan McDonald. The Chicago police are set to release another video showing the police killing of Ronald Johnson in October of 2014. 2015-12-7
A judge on the Cook County Circuit Court rules that the "Amazon tax" levied on Internet businesses by the US state of Illinois is unconstitutional. 2012-04-25
The former Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in jail for corruption. 2011-12-7
Luis Gutiérrez, an Illinois member of the United States House of Representatives, is arrested outside the White House in Washington, D.C., during protests calling for immigration reform. 2011-07-26
A jury convicts former Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich on seventeen charges of corruption. 2011-06-27