Trump is fighting back with some lawsuits of his own on the critical issue of illegal immigration. In the past week, the Justice Department has filed suits against the city of Chicago and the state of ...

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward M. Burke's Burnham Committee gave the money to a fund for Justice Joy V. Cunningham days after ...

The federal judge who oversaw Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case will hear arguments over tech billionaire Elon Musk's authority to run the Department of Government Efficiency.

After a lawsuit filed last week by 19 attorneys general, a judicial ruling temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his Department ...

The stoppage is now catching the ire of at least one local group that’s planning to protest the hospital's decision.

Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison in Colorado in February 2020, 16 months after former President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois Gov. Nearly five years ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a three-week funding freeze that has shut down U.S.

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an up-front and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.

A Chicago man is facing up to 20 years in federal prison after admitting to fraudulently collecting more than $1.5 million in ...

On Feb. 7, several sanctuary cities, led by San Francisco and including Portland, New Haven, Santa Clara and Kings County, ...

Michael J. Madigan, former Illinois House Speaker, was convicted of federal charges including conspiracy and bribery, after a ...

The 2nd Circuit rejected Kelly’s arguments that the trial evidence was inadequate, the constitutionality of some state laws ...