Friday, November 21, 2025
Leading appellate attorneys review the eight Illinois Supreme Court opinions handed down yesterday.
These “are not ordinary times at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse” in Chicago’s Loop. U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes made that point Thursday, as he closed the book on the last of five now-dismissed prosecutions tied to September protests outside a federal immigration holding facility in the western suburbs.
Former immigration judges are deeply concerned about a Trump administration plan to install military attorneys as immigration judges around the country, including in Chicago.
A suspect charged with terrorism and accused of setting a woman on fire on the CTA goes before a judge Friday.
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent after she allegedly rammed his vehicle in Brighton Park last month, marking a striking conclusion to one of the most controversial cases to emerge from Operation Midway Blitz.