Tuesday, September 9, 2025
President Donald Trump’s administration announced the launch of its long-promised deportation campaign in Chicago on Monday, just hours after Trump bemoaned the city’s violent crime.
Incumbent Timothy Evans has served for 24 years, already the longest of any chief judge in Cook County history. Two challengers are vying for control of a court system that gavels in half a million new cases per year.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is challenging a signature accomplishment of Gov. JB Pritzker’s and getting involved in a case that could go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Illinois Department of Corrections doesn’t know how many recently released prisoners have gone on to commit new crimes, WGN Investigates has learned.
Student teachers in Illinois now have more opportunities to be paid for their work. A new state law bans public universities from enforcing rules that block student teachers from being paid during their placement.