Illinois Attorney General

There’s a lot of questioning and online pushback happening in Bloomington-Normal right now concerning the arcane subject of municipal electricity aggregation.

Leader Automotive was accused of deceiving customers about car prices and availability, posting fake reviews, charging customers for add-ons without consent, and failing to share that customers were buying cars imported from Canada.

Labor leaders say contractors working on a renovation of the Uptown Normal hotel are violating prevailing wage and other laws for workers at the site.

The messages invoked slavery and some instructed the recipient to show up at an address at a particular time “with your belongings,” while others didn’t include a location. The FBI and FCC, as well as state authorities, are investigating.

The indictment alleges former Hudson water superintendent Jeff Waller forged signatures in documents submitted to the Illinois EPA in 2019, related lead and copper testing.

The Illinois attorney general has charged five men over an alleged burglary ring that targeted video gambling machines in 22 counties, including McLean.

Authorities have raided at least two pawn shops in Bloomington on Tuesday.

The state of Illinois will receive about $29 million from a nationwide settlement announced in a lawsuit over potentially cancer-causing baby powder.

Staffing agencies – a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans – are not exempt from the state’s antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled late last week.

The law aimed to stop the use of deceptive practices to steer patients away from abortion care. A lawsuit argued the law violated free speech.