I don't sit around thinking about the hypotheticals,” Johnson said in an interview with WBEZ Thursday as he defended the city’s law protecting undocumented immigrants.

Prosecutors say the “Make Mike Madigan Money Plan” helped the former Illinois House speaker’s law firm gain profits.

A number of bird flu cases have been reported in the Chicago area in recent weeks, leading to many questions about how quickly the virus is spreading and how worried residents should be.

Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard’s lawsuit alleging that a caucus improperly named state Sen. Napoleon Harris the ...

Four teenage boys have been cited in connection with the death of a coyote on the Far South Side earlier this month, according to Chicago police and state wildlife officials. The suspects, ages 16 ...

Federal immigration agents conducted the first large-scale arrest operation under the Trump administration, resulting in ...

Cleveland has a chance to become a Chicago basketball legend. He’s that good. Watching him strive towards that status will be one of the joys of Illinois high school basketball over the next two and a ...

In the face of a Trump administration directive to investigate state and local officials who don’t toe the line on the president’s orders on immigration, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon ...

Tuition for Illinois-resident undergraduates enrolling to University of Illinois schools increases ahead of the 2025 fall ...

Community leaders told NBC Chicago there’s a sense of heightened awareness in Chicago’s Chinatown this week over President Trump’s mass deportation plans.

Despite worries about federal immigration raids in the city, Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez told Chalkbeat he believes schools “are the safest spaces” for children.

A Republican state senator says migrant sanctuary policies enacted by Illinois Democrats are “getting people killed.” ...