Lawsuit alleges ICE blocks access to immigration attorneys; coerces detainees into signing deportation documents.

When Jose Jeronimo Guardian showed up at a Spanish language traffic court this week, he didn’t expect to be detained and face expulsion from a country he’d lived in for more than two decades.

Atlas BPS, a Black-owned firm operated by Paul Dejoie, filed a complaint against the DuSable Museum after waiting more than a year to collect $53,000 in unpaid fees for work that his janitorial and security company provided for the museum.

Instead of carefully targeted arrests long practiced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, President Donald Trump's administration has deployed roving groups of masked Border Patrol agents, who work within U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

A bill has passed both Illinois chambers that would allow doctors to prescribe aid-in-dying medication to people who have a terminal disease.

The killing of Sonya Massey in her home by an Illinois sheriff's deputy was pursued by prosecutors as a first-degree murder case with a possible life prison sentence. Then the judge gave the jury another option when deliberations began this week.

Early Friday morning, the Illinois legislature passed a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients. Opponents of the bill have described it as legalizing assisted suicide.

After weeks of verbally condemning the aggressive federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago region, Illinois lawmakers approved legislation banning civil immigration arrests in and around state courthouses early Friday morning.

The administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies. “This is what dystopian nightmares are made of, this kind of continual expansion of surveillance without any real oversight or restrictions,” says Jeramie Scott of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.