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An attorney for veteran downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that Illinois’ post-election mail-in ballot-counting law created the potential for reputational and financial harm to the congressman and he should be allowed to sue to try to overturn it.
Over the span of his 14 minutes, 22 seconds in the Chicago Bulls' preseason opener against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Yuki Kawamura posed the same question: Wait, why can’t this guy make it in the NBA?
The CTA is “fully and entirely committed” to building the Red Line Extension on the city’s Far South Side, the agency’s acting president said, days after President Donald Trump’s White House froze $2.1 billion in federal funding for the extension.
A victim who appears to be a juvenile was discovered fatally wounded Wednesday morning near the Green Line “L” tracks in the Woodlawn neighborhood, officials said.
A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests.
A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview last month, a rare move that prompted prosecutors to abruptly drop the case.
Sworn testimony from former Mayor Richard M. Daley regarding torture tactics used by detectives working for disgraced Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge will remain out of the public view, at least for now.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground delay at O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday due to staffing issues as a federal government shutdown nears the end of its first week.
In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired.
A close ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson suddenly resigned her position Tuesday as the leader of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Two Illinois Commerce Commission administrative law judges issued a recommendation Monday to slash a proposed $314 million Nicor Gas rate increase by more than a third.
A host of local government officials from Oak Park spoke out passionately this week against the temporary detainment of Oak Park Township Trustee Juan Munoz on Oct. 3 at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and the actions of ICE.
Back of the Yards activists came with a demand outside a quiet strip mall that the management company of the plaza stop allowing immigration agents to stage their operations on the property.
Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to provide details to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday of the legal rationale for the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois.
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Federal prosecutors said Tuesday a reputed Chicago gang member charged with soliciting the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino is in the country illegally and they are seeking to have him detained without bond pending trial.
