Courts throughout the Midwest have continued to hear cases, many of them years-long battles that are still ongoing. Here is a look at some recent court cases in several states in the Midwest. Illinois Ciolino v. Simon In August of 1982, while on a late-night walk, Jerry Hillard, 19, ...
“I don’t know if we could have beat Illinois on a neutral floor. They weren’t afraid of us,” Wildcat guard Dicky Beal says now. Virginia was there, having found a different formula to win the year after Sampson left. The Cavaliers struggled so much at the...
Targets like Laura Kowal, an Illinois widow who went on Match.com in 2018 and was quickly swept off her feet by a charming man who said he was an investment executive from Sweden named Frank Borg. She ended up sending her life's savings, $1.5 million, to the scammer behind the profile...
A derecho--a line of powerful, quick windstorms sometimes joined by thunderstorms traversing a large expanse of land--pushed its way over the Midwest in the summer of 2020, causing damage in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. The winds were powerful enough to create tornadoes. ...
Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, Idaho passed a law generally allowing abortions in the first and second trimester up to viability at about 23 to 24 weeks. The law allows abortions after viability only to protect the mother’s life or in cases of nonviable fetuses. This year, ...
Illinois: Aqua Tower Radomir Renzy // Shutterstock Illinois: Aqua Tower A recent addition to the Chicago skyline, the Aqua skyscraper is notable for wave-like balconies meant to offer views of the city's landmarks around corners and through the gaps between existing buildings. Completed in 2009...
President Joe Biden called directly on Congress to pass legislation to protect in vitro fertilization, warning of further fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. “Don’t keep this waiting any longer. Guarantee the right to IVF. Guarantee it nationwide.” “I wi...
Illinois: Aqua Tower Radomir Renzy // Shutterstock Illinois: Aqua Tower A recent addition to the Chicago skyline, the Aqua skyscraper is notable for wave-like balconies meant to offer views of the city's landmarks around corners and through the gaps between existing buildings. Completed in 2009...
Illinois: Aqua Tower Radomir Renzy // Shutterstock Illinois: Aqua Tower A recent addition to the Chicago skyline, the Aqua skyscraper is notable for wave-like balconies meant to offer views of the city's landmarks around corners and through the gaps between existing buildings. Completed in 2009...
and making changes to the immigration court system to speed up cases. Trump’s allies have said they are planning first to focus on immigrants in the country illegally who have received final orders of deportation from an immigration court, of which there are about 1.3 million, as well as th...