Cook County’s top judge has signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole new states.

More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois.

A Cook County judge has lifted a temporary restraining order, allowing the parents of a Michigan woman who was found dead in Chicago to bring her body home after a legal dispute with her husband.

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have appealed an Illinois judge’s decision ordering election officials to remove the Republican’s name from the state's March 19 primary ballot.

Migrants who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and travel to cities around the country are running into a disjointed health care systems when they need treatment.

Criminal justice and election officials, along with voting rights advocates, are working across the United States to expand voting among jail detainees.

Immigration advocates are accusing the data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions of violating Illinois law by collecting and combining extensive personal information and selling it to third parties including federal immigration authorities.

A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods.

Sheriff's department officers in one Illinois county are hitting the streets with tablets that can connect people in distress immediately with mental health professionals.

CHICAGO – A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule Monday that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits, a blow to the Trump administration on the eve of the election. Among other things, Feinerman said the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which makes federal agencies accountable to the public by outlining a detailed process for enacting regulations. Under the Trump administration policy, immigration officials could deny permanent residency to legal immigrants over their use of food stamps, Medicaid, housing vouchers or other public benefits. Immigrant rights advocates deemed it a “wealth test," while public health experts said it would mean poorer health outcomes and rising costs as low-income migrants chose between needed services and their bid to stay in the country legally. Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel for ICIRR, called the rule an “attack” on legal immigration and criticized the way the Trump administration has instituted policies.

The advocacy organization released a report detailing voting access for jail inmates with Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group formed by the Rev. The advocacy organization released a report detailing voting access for jail inmates with Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group formed by the Rev. “The way to avoid that is to not get arrested or get sentenced to jail.”Efforts to increase voting access for incarcerated people aren't new. A 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the voting rights of some incarcerated people without government interference, though some lower courts have allowed more restrictive absentee voting deadlines for detainees in some states. In March, the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois became one of the first in the nation to operate as a jail polling station.

In this Wednesday, May 13, 2020 photo, Meghan Peck works on contact tracing at the Florida Dept. They are often hundreds even thousands of people short of targets for their contact tracing programs. Until recently, there had been scant federal guidance on what contact tracing should look like, and there is still no coordinated federal strategy. It said the number of case investigators and contact tracers needed in each community may be large and will vary, in part due to caseloads. Under California's criteria for a broader reopening, counties should have 15 people trained in contact tracing for every 100,000 residents.