FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Gov. JB Pritzker and a handful of fellow Democratic governors conferred with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last night, urging him to get his caucus in line to push back at President Donald Trump ’s actions and appointments, according to a person familiar with their call. Our story is here.

With the TRO against the Board of Education in place, the fired CPS CEO remains in charge of Chicago Public Schools.

A new bill in the Illinois Senate would require state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) and repeal the state's TRUST Act, which places limitations on police action.

A trio of appellate court judges said no to a request by a Pekin woman, accused of suffocating a 10-month-old baby, to stay out of jail pending trial. The 4th District Appellate Court in Springfield sided with Tazewell County Judges Derek Asbury and then Chris Doscotch,

Laken Riley Act: President Trump signed his first bill into law, and it closely tracked his agenda on immigration. The bill directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes if they are in the country illegally. Read more ›

The Tribune spoke with Nicole Hallett, a clinical law professor at University of Chicago, and Diana Rashid, managing attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center, to learn more about what

A federal judge in Seattle issued a blistering rebuke to block President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Western District of Washington came after Trump signed an executive order that claimed a baby born in America must have at least one parent who is either a citizen or a lawful permanent resident to automatically qualify

Kwame Raoul, the Illinois attorney general ... be "wildly inappropriate and premature" to grant a temporary restraining order at this moment that blocks implementation of the measure.

A federal court issued a temporary restraining order against a presidential order challenging birthright citizenship.

The order has already become the subject of five lawsuits by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states.

The ruling bars U.S. agencies from implementing the order to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status while the case is under review.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the