Voter privacy: Illinois is also among more than 20 states the Justice Department has sued in an effort to obtain expansive ...

The Justice Department on Monday sued JB Pritzker and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, seeking to block a new state law that restricts how federal immigration agents can operate. The law, signed ...

The Department of Health and Human Services told Congress on Monday that it planned to withhold about $600 million in grant funding allocated to the four states: California, Colorado, Illinois and ...

Claims expected to arise out of the administration’s crackdown are winding through a bureaucratic process mandated under the ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and civil rights leader who twice sought to be the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president, died Tuesday, his family announced.

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit from a former top investigator for the Chicago city office responsible for investigating ...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression argued that Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem violated the free speech rights of two Americans by pushing to ...

Late Prof. Roger Schank’s Epstein relationship, Illinois Accountability Commission initial report, Northwestern 2026 spring ...

The lawsuit seeks a ruling that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem violated the First Amendment ...

SPRINGFIELD - Gunmaker Smith & Wesson will get a chance to appeal a Lake County judge's decision clearing the way for the ...

Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president twice, died Tuesday ...

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