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Attendees gather for a Day of the Dead altar building event for Silverio Villegas González on Nov. 1, 2025, near where he was shot in Franklin Park. Villegas González was shot and killed by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement on Sept. 12, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/baiduhai)

Illinois State Police investigating fatal ICE shooting of Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park

May 5, 2026 at 9:46 p.m.

Franklin Park asked Illinois State Police to investigate the fatal ICE shooting in the suburb after a state commission scrutinizing the Chicago-area immigration crackdown completed its report.

Chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission and former federal Judge Rubén Castillo, left, listens to Gov. JB Pritzker speak in Chicago, April 30, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Gov. Pritzker urges criminal investigations of federal immigration agents after Illinois panel releases report

April 30, 2026 at 9:19 p.m.

Gov. JB Pritzker last fall tasked the Illinois Accountability Commission with fact-finding about Operation Midway Blitz raids. While its report could spur investigations, the panel has no direct law enforcement...

Senate President Don Harmon, center, departs after Gov. JB Pritzker delivered his annual State of the State and budget address Feb. 18, 2026, at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Illinois Senate halts redistricting constitutional amendment question after Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling

April 29, 2026 at 6:28 p.m.

Senate Democratic President Don Harmon called off a constitutional amendment push to enshrine protections for majority-minority districts shortly after U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Police Officer John Bartholomew was fatally shot at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital. (Chicago Police Department)

Hospital shooting of 2 Chicago cops shows gaps in Cook County’s electronic-monitoring system

April 29, 2026 at 5:49 p.m.

About seven weeks before Alphanso Talley allegedly snuck a gun into a hospital and shot the pair of cops guarding him, his electronic monitor went into “sleep mode” and officials...

Marimar Martínez, with her attorney, Christopher Parente, pauses for a moment while describing what happened after she was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent last fall, during an Illinois Accountability Commission hearing at the Bilandic Building in the Loop on April 28, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Marimar Martinez testifies at Illinois commission: ‘I just acted like any human being’

April 28, 2026 at 6:48 p.m.

Marimar Martínez testified at the final hearing of the Illinois Accountability Commission, which examined the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operation this fall.

A credit card is processed on a point-of-sale system at a restaurant in Chicago on June 21, 2024. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the baiduhai)

Federal government intervenes to block Illinois’ landmark credit card swipe fee as lawmakers weigh options

April 28, 2026 at 4:55 p.m.

Federal order is the latest development in a nearly two-year fight between banks and retailers over an Illinois law that bans so-called swipe fees on the tax and tip portions...

Members of the Illinois Accountability Commission watch body camera footage of federal officers clashing violently with Evanston residents during testimony on the conduct of federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, at the Michael Bilandic Building on April 27, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Illinois commission in final stretch of hearings on Operation Midway Blitz as Katie Abraham’s mother testifies

April 27, 2026 at 7:04 p.m.

Gov. JB Pritzker launched a commission to scrutinize federal immigration agents’ actions during the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz earlier this fall.

Gov. JB Pritzker answers questions after speaking at the Newberry Library in Chicago on March 30, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Illinois sets new rules barring state workers from prediction market bets and AI use without oversight

April 26, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration is setting rules on two emerging technologies as state governments across the country try to stay ahead of a rapidly changing world.

A police officer salutes as an ambulance transports the body of a police officer to the medical examiner's office from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where two officers were taken after being shot by a suspect at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, April 25, 2026, in Chicago. One of the officers died, and the other is in critical condition, according to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Chicago police officer killed, another critically injured in shooting at Swedish Hospital: ‘A devastating loss’

April 25, 2026 at 9:14 p.m.

One Chicago police officer was killed and another critically injured after they were shot at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital Saturday morning by a man they brought in for treatment at...

State Rep. Will Davis speaks Feb. 9, 2026, at the Bilandic Building in Chicago’s Loop. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

‘Millionaire tax’ amendment won’t be on November ballot as Illinois Democrats can’t come to agreement

April 23, 2026 at 6:49 p.m.

The House adjourned without voting on the so-called millionaire's tax resolution, a development that means they will miss a May 3 deadline to place the question on the Nov. 3...

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