Kwame Raoul

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 settlement is part of a national agreement announced last year. The grocery chain will pay a total of $1.37 billion to settle claims by 30 states related to the opioid crisis.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is seeking to enforce state consumer protection laws to stop the platform from capitalizing on young users, and wants to hold the defendants accountable for “unfairly and deceptively designing, operating, and marketing the TikTok Platform to ensnare and addict young users in Illinois.”

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

Massey was shot and killed by a former sheriff’s deputy. Her family believes the law should be changed to prevent officers from bouncing around law enforcement agencies.

An Illinois law banning the sale and use of “bump stocks” and other devices that increase the firing power of semiautomatic weapons remains in place, at least for now, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision Friday striking down a federal ban on such items.

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

A publishing company whose politically slanted newspapers have been derided as “pink slime” is being sued by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul for illegally identifying birthdates and home addresses of “hundreds of thousands” of voters.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said David L. Howell, 64, pleaded guilty to disseminating child pornography. McLean County Judge Jason Chambers sentenced Howell to 12 years in prison for the two Class X felonies.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says programs like Tuesday evening's “Protecting Places of Worship Forum” can — and do — save lives.