Looking back: Historians who have studied Chicago’s immigrant communities say the conversations around President Donald Trump ...

The president's first week brought tough talk on cutting climate and clean energy spending. This week brought chaos.

Federal judges who oversaw Jan. 6 cases pushed back against President Trump’s sweeping pardons Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote in in court filings for Proud Boys Nicholas Ochs and ...

The City of Chicago and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are vowing to protect immigrant communities as President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation continues to make waves. WGN's Julian Crews has ...

Geoff Bennett discussed Biden's legacy with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Tonight, President Biden plans to deliver a prime-time farewell address to the nation. Earlier today ...

Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called a bill proposed in the Republican-led Indiana General Assembly that would explore how Illinois counties could secede and join Indiana "a stunt" that is ...

I trend watch like a hawk, and while I like to think I know what’s going to be big in the upcoming weeks—thanks to a mix of runway and celeb sightings, and just an inherent feel for what’s ...

Your device does not support the audio. CHICAGO- Today, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative (CBHTI) announced the public launch of the ...

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he will sign a measure the previous General Assembly approved to confiscate firearms from subjects of domestic violence orders of protection. House Bill 4144 started ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather, who are both white, were arrested after two of their five children were found locked up in a shed outside ...

SANTA CRUZ — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar ...