Wednesday, February 25, 2026
A third grader who stopped eating lunch at school because he feared typing in his lunch code would help immigration enforcement agents target his family. A mother who considered granting guardianship of her daughter to a healthcare provider so she could get the care she needed if her parents had to leave the country without her. A vibrant economic corridor turned into a ghost town.
Chicago’s federal prosecutor’s office has been chosen as a lead partner on a new task force targeting major trade fraud schemes nationwide.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, can't use its user agreement to escape yet another potentially massive payout from a lawsuit brought under Illinois' stringent biometric privacy law, a federal judge has ruled.
Just one year after the Illinois General Assembly failed to pass a school cellphone ban, Gov. JB Pritzker is asking lawmakers to advance an even stricter version of the proposal that mandates all public and charter school districts adopt a ban that runs throughout the full school day.
A federal jury began deliberating Tuesday about whether a “code of silence” among Chicago Police Department officers led to a botched August 2018 raid of a Back of the Yards apartment that violated the civil rights of a family with four children.