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

The ABC7 I-Team found despite a local ordinance and state law prohibiting collaboration between Illinois law enforcement ...

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

In 2023 and 2024, over a dozen Illinois counties and cities passed non-sanctuary laws or resolutions, explicitly stating that ...

The House Oversight Committee is investigating the policies of sanctuary jurisdictions in Boston, Chicago, Denver and New ...

On Feb. 7, several sanctuary cities, led by San Francisco and including Portland, New Haven, Santa Clara and Kings County, ...

Orland Park says police will work with federal immigration agents when undocumented immigrants are charged or convicted of ...

President Donald Trump has often singled out Chicago and Illinois because they have some of the nation's strongest protections for immigrants. Top administration officials last month visited the city ...

CHICAGO (AP ... saying pausing funding to sanctuary jurisdictions is defunding the police. “This is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to defund police and distract local ...

Legal advocates and some local elected leaders across the country say it's fundamentally a fight over local versus federal ...

The DOJ's lawsuit against Chicago's sanctuary laws is the most visible effort to force local police to help with immigration enforcement. But the more serious pressure is coming from states. Support ...

As deportation officers continue to zero in on Chicago and Republican officials gear up for investigations into the mayor, moderate ...