Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 19 other Democratic attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Tuesday against Trump administration policies designed to block federal funding to states that don’t carry out U.S. immigration enforcement.
Chester Weger‘s attorneys continued to mount his defense on Tuesday during the second day of his “mini-trial”, a term coined by his attorneys to describe his post-conviction evidentiary hearing.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Milbank are among six law firms that resolved probes of their diversity practices by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, they told state attorneys general.
A 6-foot-tall inflatable Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to passersby outside the Trump Truth Store in far northwest suburban Huntley, which sells all varieties of Trump-themed merchandise from Make America Great Again T-shirts to DOGE baseball caps.
State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health care coverage to more than 30,000 non-U.S. citizens in Illinois, including many who are in the country without legal authorization.
Illinois’ governor signed an executive order that restricts state agencies from collecting and sharing autism-related data, in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.