People detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Broadview are sleeping on concrete floors amid “urine and dirty water,” according to a federal class action lawsuit filed late last week in Chicago.

Attorney Scott Sakiyama stood in front of reporters in Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Oct. 10. Paul Ivery, a 26-year-old intellectually disabled Black man and Oak Park local, was leaving the courthouse after enduring nearly two weeks of criminal proceedings. The government claimed Ivery assaulted a Border Patrol agent at a protest at the suburban Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27, only to drop the case two weeks later. Sakiyama, a fellow Oak Park resident, didn’t represent Ivery in court but offered to act as a spokesperson for his family. “If the case had gone forward, it probably would have lasted for months, and so it’s just such a relief to have it over now,” Sakiyama told reporters on Oct.10. Ten days later, Sakiyama ended up in the back of a vehicle used by federal immigration agents himself.

It was half past midnight and eight women had just left the Cook County jail. They hadn’t eaten in hours. They didn’t have their phones, keys, or anything else they had on them when they were arrested; a few didn’t even have sure ways to get home. One, a recent transplant to the city with no close contacts, broke down in tears at the prospect of a night on the streets. That was a Thursday in May, and those women were only a few of the people released from the jail long after the sun went down t...

What starts in the streets ends up in the courtroom. On Wednesday, Chicago’s federal courthouse proceeded with multiple criminal and civil cases that have emerged in the wake of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Lake County judge returns mixed ruling in the first of two criminal trials against ex-police officer Dante Salinas.

Demonstrators are getting more familiar with their tactics. When the masked and unmasked federal agents surfaced on the rooftop of the red-brick building in suburban Broadview, some armed with pepper ball guns, protesters began to put on their protective gear—masks, goggles, helmets.

Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.

U.S. immigration authorities have moved one young man so often over the last month that even the Department of Homeland Security has had trouble keeping track of him.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were originally supposed to spend only about a week in space before technical difficulties prompted their extended stay on the International Space Station.

The complex case deals with an Indiana state law granting incumbent electric facility operators a right of first refusal on certain electric transmission construction projects.

CHICAGO (CN) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has tossed its almost three-year-old regulatory enforcement lawsuit against credit reporting agency TransUnion, according to a court stipulation published Friday morning. The bureau and the agency say in the joint stipulation that the bureau is voluntarily dismissing its federal complaint against both TransUnion and John Danaher, one of its executives. The bureau sought a "pause" in the case earlier this month, citing President Donald Trump's shakeup of its leadership.

(CN) — If you were a child in foster care, would you rather be cared for by a stranger or a grandparent? According to researchers from the University of Illinois, foster kids generally do better when placed with family — but it’s not always as simple as finding a relative with a spare room. Instead, families face a variety of barriers when trying to take in an underage relative, from a lack of government assistance to an inability to meet foster care licensing standards. Criticism of these structural barriers and their role in perpetuating economic and racial inequality goes back decades. A new law in Illinois known as the Kinship in Demand (KIND) Act seeks to break down some of them.

CHICAGO (CN) — Jurors on Wednesday returned a split verdict in the monthslong federal corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan. Jurors found Madigan guilty on 10 of the 23 corruption charges he faced and not guilty on seven counts. They did not return a verdict on his co-defendant and longtime ally Mike McClain. The jury deadlocked on the six charges McClain shared with Madigan: an overarching racketeering conspiracy charge that ran throughout case's multiple "episodes," and additional fraud, bribery and racketeering counts.

Trump's pardon for the former Illinois Governor comes just shy of five years after he commuted Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence.

CHICAGO (CN) — The Trump administration filed a federal lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago and Cook County on Thursday morning, claiming local laws designed to protect immigrants violate the constitution. The lawsuit declares a "national crisis" of illegal immigration and asserts a need to enforce federal immigration laws. "This action seeks to put an end to one state’s efforts to impede the federal government from doing that," the government writes in the suit.

CHICAGO (CN) — The Chicago City Council on Wednesday headed off an effort to weaken municipal immigrant protections, as the country prepares for a second Trump presidential administration. City councilors voted 39-11 in favor of tabling a measure that would have amended Chicago's Welcoming City Ordinance, stripping the ordinance's protections for immigrants arrested or convicted for certain crimes.

CHICAGO (CN) — Ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan took the stand in his own federal corruption trial on Tuesday. The surprise move came in the middle of Madigan's defense case, and upturned estimates of when jurors might begin deliberations.

CHICAGO (CN) — The Illinois assault weapon and extended ammo magazine bans are back in play as of Thursday afternoon, per an order from a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel that freezes a lower court's recent ruling against the bans. "The absence of support in other circuits for the district court’s disposition lends strength to a conclusion that the Illinois statutes should remain in force until final appellate resolution," the three-judge appellate panel wrote.