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If not for a family friend with a public profile, Sunny Naqvi, a U.S. citizen, fears her story of being at a Chicago airport for 30 hours before being sent to an immigration facility in Wisconsin may ...

Shawna Jeanguenat was 5 months pregnant with her second child when she was detained in the LaSalle County Jail in Illinois on drug-related charges in 2019. She was later transferred on a separate ...

A woman who is a U.S. citizen says she was detained by ICE and released from Dodge County Jail, but the sheriff is denying it ...

Family and friends of Sunny Naqvi, 28, a U.S. citizen, provided a detailed account of what they say was Naqvi's extended and illegal detention in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Four-term incumbent Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle faces a challenge from Ald. Brendan Reilly. The 17-member County Board, forest preserves, and budgets for the county’s massive health ...

The contested races for the 17-member Cook County Board ended with two established incumbents toppled, three recent appointees surviving outside challenges, and several familiar political names edging ...

Voters in Cook County will be casting their ballots for several offices, including two countywide officials facing primary challenges.

Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...

A judge has ruled that Whiteside County may have been improperly excluding jurors for years, raising questions about whether the county’s jury selection process violates state law and defendants’ cons ...