Each county in Illinois also has a sheriff. The sheriff is an elected position, and sheriffs serve a four-year term. Cook ...

As the Trump administration has begun enacting mass deportations in recent weeks, activists and public officials in Chicago have been scaling up protections for immigrants. Both Chicago Mayor Brandon ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Trump administration sued Chicago on Thursday alleging that 'sanctuary' laws in the nation's third-largest ...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent letters Johnson and the mayors for three other major cities – ...

The Trump administration sued officials in Illinois, Chicago and Cook County on Thursday over policies that limit cooperation ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will appear before Congress next month to discuss the city’s status as a sanctuary city.

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois for sanctuary policies that ...

Chicago’s path to being a sanctuary city began more than 40 years ago. Here’s a look back at the leaders and laws that have shaped Chicago’s involvement with the sanctuary movement. July 18, 1982: ...

This lawsuit will put the spotlight on obstruction by state and local officials and their refusal to support the administration and compliance with the law,” a DOJ official told The ...

The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies that bar local authorities from cooperating with the deportation effort are “exacerbating” a ...

The suit alleges that “sanctuary laws” like Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance and Illinois’s TRUST Act, which limit local ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Chicago has always been a sanctuary for the dispossessed of the world. As early as the 1830s, Polish noblemen and refugees from the Polish-Russian War of 1830-1831 ...