Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (File)
Crime
4 months ago
8 killed and 50 wounded in Chicago over long weekend as Trump warns of federal deployment

“We’ve got crime on the streets,” Pritzker acknowledged last week. “Any person that gets killed or hurt is a victim of crime, is somebody that we ought to be addressing the challenges for. And we’re doing that every day. But the way to do it is with police officers, not with troops.”

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about the relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Crime
4 months ago
Trump says he will order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore despite local opposition

Asked by reporters in the Oval Office about sending National Guard troops to Chicago, Trump said, “We’re going in,” but added, “I didn’t say when.”

Crime
4 months ago
GOP: Governor is afraid Trump’s tactics will work

“If they told me the Easter bunny could come in and fix this,” Miller said, “I’d say, come on down and let’s get this done.”

Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured in Chicago on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
IL State News
4 months ago
UPDATED Pritzker: Trump isn’t coordinating with anyone about troops in Chicago

Pritzker: “…it’s an attack on the American people.”

Cortnie Stewart, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 1997 car crash, looks up at her mother Judy Stegle at their home in Jonesboro, Illinois. A nearby nonprofit provided respite services to aid in her full-time care before closing as result of the budget impasse. (Julia Rendleman for CNI)
IL State News
5 months ago
10 years after state budget impasse, human services in Illinois again brace for ‘tsunami’

Nonprofits hurt by impasse boosted budgets with federal funding — now endangered by Trump.

IL State News
5 months ago
The grades are out on legislators and the environment

More than a third of state lawmakers scored 100 percent on IL Environmental Council scorecard.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a television interview at the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
IL State News
5 months ago
DHS Secretary Noem confirms more ICE resources are heading to Chicago for immigration crackdown

“We’ve already had ongoing operations with ICE in Chicago… but we do intend to add more resources to those operations,” Noem said during an appearance CBS News’ ”Face the Nation.”

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a forum on climate change at the Aspen Ideas conference in Chicago on Monday, July 21, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
IL State News
5 months ago
Pritzker to ‘Face the Nation’: Guard not wanted, Trump is an ‘authoritarian’

Pritzker: “It’s clear that, in secret, they’re planning…well, it’s an invasion, with U.S. troops.”

This early photograph now digitized by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum depicts John Wilkes Booth and the devil.
History
5 months ago
Assassin, devil together in latest ALPLM upload

19th Century social media is part of “Picturing Lincoln.”

The Chicago city skyline is seen from Diversey Harbor, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
IL State News
5 months ago
Chicago mayor defies Trump’s immigration crackdown plan for the city

The mayor directed all city departments to guard the constitutional rights of Chicago residents “amidst the possibility of imminent militarized immigration or National Guard deployment by the federal government.”

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