Illinois is where LawEngine lives — and where we hold ourselves to the same receipt standard we apply to everyone else. The paper trail from bill to Public Act to binding statute, rebuilt from official sources. Nearly half a million legal citations and quotes examined across real court filings — including more than 200 citations that cannot exist under Illinois’s own rules — with the limits stated out loud.
Every count in this series carries an as-of date and a source. Run audits, snapshots, and count verification are available to journalists and researchers at press@lawengine.ai.
Investigation · July 25, 2026
From the bill in Springfield to the Public Act to the statute you can quote: 163,006 bills and resolutions, 2.1 million official actions, and 88,962 version-level links from Public Acts into the compiled statutes (as of July 24, 2026) — rebuilt from official ILGA sources, with a receipt at every hop we publish.
Investigation · July 25, 2026
492,581 legal citations and quotes examined across 14,997 real Illinois Supreme and Appellate Court filings — every result with a receipt. Plus: 221 citations found across 169 appellate records that cannot exist under Illinois’s own citation rule — one in the court’s own PDF header.
The product behind the reporting: Illinois statutes, court rules, and regulations with source receipts — and a deterministic Document Assessment that checks citations, and quotes against covered primary law, before you file — and says plainly when a quotation was not assessed.