Tom Homan, the former acting director of ICE and Trump’s pick to serve as his “border czar,” has vowed to initially focus efforts to deport undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of serious ...

The freeze threatened to hold up trillions of dollars in funding for basic government functions like health care, infrastructure and support for children and veterans.

An American Airlines plane that was landing in Washington, D.C., and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training flight ...

Latino neighborhoods in Chicago are on edge amid increased reports of immigration raids by federal law enforcement agents.

Three new species of king cobras have recently been identified, and the Field Museum’s collection has been harboring one of ...

For many in Chicago’s transgender community, the order and other policies of the new administration are cause for concern.

Michael Madigan’s defense team rested Thursday, nearly three months after opening statements and testimony began in the ...

Artist and photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson and sociologist Maria Krysan compiled Chicagoans’ stories in their new book. The ...

State Rep. Sonya Harper (D-Chicago), sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy ...

Most people don’t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens ...

An officer who was part of the team that fired 96 times in 41 seconds in the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed resigned from the ...

Frida Kahlo lived a dramatic and creative life that continues to inspire. Playwright and performer Vanessa Severo tells the ...