U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood wants answers about alleged federal immigration enforcement activity in Joliet that she says flagrantly violated law enforcement standards and recklessly put people at risk.

Since 2019, more than 1,000 Cook County homeowners have lost their homes and home equity to investors — called tax buyers — through property tax foreclosure. Collectively, these homeowners owed $2.3 m...

Abrego submitted a harrowing and detailed account of abuse after the Trump administration illegally deported him.

The family of a man who died in Cook County Jail last year after he was beaten by guards is suing Sheriff Tom Dart alleging civil rights violations and

Guardian reporting reveals confusing and contradictory events surrounding death of Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado

The government is using a method to remove people from the country that is likely unlawful and is doing so by evading judicial review, a judge said.

The 11th District tactical officers were conducting potentially unlawful searches with their body-worn cameras turned off when one of them shot and killed a dog.

At first glance, it may seem that the War on Drugs has all but disappeared in Baltimore. The decades-long campaign decimated Black neighborhoods and fueled mass incarceration in the city under the…

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Lawyers for Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo deny he is a gang member and say the DPS accusation hinges on a photo they found of him standing next to a man with tattoos.

By the time three Pilsen tenants began writing letters to their landlord requesting repairs in May 2023, water was dripping from the ceiling of a

Nearly 447,000 US kids under 3 were unhoused at last count. Trump’s budget bill threatens to make that number skyrocket.

For tens of thousands of US service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from immigration raids.

This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and EquityWhen Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home

The city would own a majority stake in the mixed-income rental buildings developed, a first-of-its-kind role for the city.

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Although no widespread immigration raids were reported here this week, the possibility — and reports that Chicago would be ground zero for enforcement — kept many of the region’s estimated 400,000 …

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The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, ...

Dart, who oversees the jail, sent top deputies to the county board hearing, where family members of those who died offered emotional testimony.