President Donald Trump’s administration went to court Thursday to challenge sanctuary policies in the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago that limit the powers of state and local ...

Several days after Tara Stamps was appointed as a Cook County board commissioner in the summer of 2023, heavy storms flooded homes in her district’s West Side neighborhoods — including her own.

The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local ...

A letter stated that the elevated lead levels and presence of Legionella were detected in water at various locations in the ...

Federal officials are asking a judge to bar the Illinois, Chicago, Cook County and the Cook County Sheriff from using local ...

Attorneys with the Cook County Public Defender’s Office, led by Sharone Mitchell, Jr., will be representing undocumented ...

Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced in January that it would close its South Side Englewood clinic and three others in ...

A majority of Cook County assistant state’s attorneys in ... is granted,” said Pasquale Gianni, director of government affairs for Teamsters Joint Council 25, an umbrella organization for ...

In its lawsuit, filed Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice says Chicago’s Welcoming City Act, Cook County’s Ordinance 11-O-73 and Illinois’ Way Forward Act allegedly discriminate against the ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is suing Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, arguing their Democratic ...