Tag: Illinois

Portage, Indiana makes play for Chicago Bears stadium, Arlington Heights keeps pressure on

With fourth quarter urgency, another Northwest Indiana community is adding its pitch to try and lure the Chicago Bears, as northwest suburban Arlington Heights keeps the pressure on. Leaders in Portage, Indiana, made a pitch for a new Bears stadium, “Halas Harbor,” on Wednesday. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here […]

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Border Patrol Chief Praised Agent Who Shot Unarmed Woman Five Times

“What’s happening in Minnesota is wrong,” Ruohonen said, citing the Bill of Rights and his 28 years of experience as an attorney. “There’s no shades of gray. It’s clear. “I really love what’s been happening there now, with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity, and respect for others that they don’t know, […]

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Woman Shot by Border Patrol Says Agent Appeared to Take “Trophy Photo”

“She told me that there are no bad people and that everyone makes mistakes. She has Nee’s spirit,” he said. His sister, he said, “carried peace, patience, and love for others wherever she went.” “Our family is a very American blend,” Ganger continued. “We vote differently, and we rarely completely agree on the finer details […]

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Individual States Join World Health Organization After Trump Drops It

One of the departures is the civil division chief, Ana Voss, who was in charge of handling the hundreds of wrongful detention petitions filed as a result of ICE’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Voss wrote in a recent legal brief that she couldn’t “effectively triage and review” every judicial order. Other employees besides the attorneys […]

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Is Universal Childcare the Democrats’ Winning Issue This Year?

An important component to all of these plans will be raising provider pay and trying to build on the network of experienced programs that already exist, while at the same time covering costs for families and trying to expand the network of providers. In most of the country, the current system is an unorganized, uneven […]

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It Seems White House Used AI to Edit Photo of ICE Protesters’ Arrest

“There’s a firm argument to be made that this art form, the Delta blues, is our country’s most important contribution to global popular culture. You know, I think it’s probably [Black people’s] most important artistic contribution to the world,” Coogler told Democracy Now! last spring. “And it was such a profound discovery, that this music […]

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Top 10 Housing Markets For First-Time Buyers In 2026

Top 10 cities stand out for affordability, amenities, and economic stability. Buyers can find viable paths to homeownership by focusing on lower-priced markets with strong local economies. Experts emphasize the importance of location in shaping the trade-offs of home buying. Source: TW Farlow / Getty The housing market in 2026 offers promising opportunities for first-time […]

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5 States Sue Trump Administration Over Frozen HHS Funds For Low-Income Families

Source: The Washington Post / Getty New York Attorney General Letitia James is among the five Attorneys general from Democrat-led states suing the Trump administration for freezing funds intended for programs that assist low-income families.  According to CBS News, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, and New York are the states suing the Trump administration, arguing that […]

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Trump to Cut Off Funding to Minnesota and Four Other Blue States

That decision, in turn, could hand Miller outsize influence regarding the future of the country. Miller might be tasked with the day-to-day, nitty-gritty responsibilities of supervising the regime change under the office of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio, a longtime Venezuela hawk, would be the more obvious choice to oversee the regime change—but his […]

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Governor Pritzker Makes It Easier for People to Sue ICE

Right-wingers have been doing the “Free Tina” thing for some time now. Peters is currently serving nine years in jail for granting unauthorized access to Colorado voting machines and being charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, two counts of conspiracy to commit attempting to influence a public servant, first-degree official […]

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Feds Drop Case After Border Patrol Bragged About Shooting Defendant

The Trump administration first bungled the release of the files in July, when the Justice Department issued a memo that contradicted Attorney General Pam Bondi on the alleged existence of Epstein’s so-called “client list.” Since then, Trump has attempted to brush off the scandal, repeatedly referring to it as a Democrat-invented “hoax.” “For years our […]

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Federal Judge Orders Hundreds of ICE Detainees to Be Released

“There’s a total of about 23,000 documents.… We obviously released some today, we’ll be releasing additional documents likely later today,” Garcia said. “The important thing here is that we know, and we’ve been demanding that Donald Trump and the DOJ release the full Epstein files.” Garcia continued, “In what’s been released today—which obviously is quite […]

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Border Patrol Takes Sick Photo After Tear-Gassing Residents in Chicago

Those senators included  Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, John Fetterman, and Tim Kaine, as well as independent Angus King. All eight lawmakers are either retiring or won’t face another election for several years, making the alleged behind-the-scenes rationale for the crumbling stalemate even more asinine. More than a dozen […]

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Illinois Governor: Redistricting Effort Hinges On Indiana 

Source: Jamie Kelter Davis / Getty Tuesday’s elections were a huge boon for Democrats in the ongoing redistricting battle. While redistricting efforts in California and Virginia are currently underway, Gov. JB Pritzker said that an Illinois redistricting effort would be decided by how Indiana’s redistricting push progresses.  According to STLPR, Pritzker was speaking at an […]

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ICE Barbie Says She Wants to Traumatize Kids on Halloween Even More

Riley previously worked as a partner at McKinsey & Company, and completed a Ph.D. in social policy and an M.Sc. in contemporary Chinese from Oxford, according to her LinkedIn. She joined the ranks at DOGE and was assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services, where Politico reported she pushed for massive layoffs earlier […]

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Trump DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate for Protesting ICE

One such area the president has homed in on is Portland, Oregon, a city better known for Voodoo Doughnuts and cold brew than hellish riots. Late last month, the president ordered the National Guard to the hipster paradise, but his rationale for sending them was not informed by statistics or data—instead, it was because of […]

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“You’re Dead, Liberal”: Federal Agent Threatens to Shoot Veteran

“It was 30 to 35 questions.… The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question. It’s, like, you’ll go: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. So they say, ‘Could you repeat that?’ So I said, ‘Yeah. It’s: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV,’” Trump said back in 2020. “They […]

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Trump Approves Disaster Aid—But Only for States That Voted for Him

In reality … Reagan was still very critical of tariffs during the brief speech, perhaps even more so than depicted by the ad’s brevity. Not all of the sentences used in the advert, however, are in the exact order they appear in the complete speech. Here’s what Reagan actually said in his full address at […]

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Trump Approves Disaster Relief—But Just for States That Voted for Him

In reality … Reagan was still very critical of tariffs during the brief speech, perhaps even more so than depicted by the ad’s brevity. Not all of the sentences used in the advert, however, are in the exact order they appear in the complete speech. Here’s what Reagan actually said in his full address at […]

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Democratic Leader Warns Stephen Miller Is “Taking Advantage” of Trump

Texas Democratic Party Chairman Kendall Scudder accused Abbott of “suck[ing] up to Donald Trump,” saying, “We do not need an unnecessary display of force at the expense of taxpayers on a peaceful protest.” Texas House of Representatives Minority Leader Gene Wu said Abbott’s plan to send “armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings […]

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Dem Leader Warns Stephen Miller Is Taking Advantage of Trump’s State

Texas Democratic Party Chairman Kendall Scudder accused Abbott of “suck[ing] up to Donald Trump,” saying, “We do not need an unnecessary display of force at the expense of taxpayers on a peaceful protest.” Texas House of Representatives Minority Leader Gene Wu said Abbott’s plan to send “armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings […]

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DHS Quietly Edits Number of Gang Members Captured in Chicago Raid

Deciding to join them, the driver, according to their report, put the emergency vehicle in park, which caused it to lurch forward slightly. An agent evidently interpreted the vehicle’s forward movement as deliberate, and is said to have begun threatening the driver. The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver […]

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Federal Agents Tear-Gas Chicago Police Officers—Again

Deciding to join them, the driver, according to their report, put the emergency vehicle in park, which caused it to lurch forward slightly. An agent evidently interpreted the vehicle’s forward movement as deliberate, and is said to have begun threatening the driver. The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver […]

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Federal Agents Tear Gas Chicago Police—Violating Judge’s Order

Deciding to join them, the driver, according to their report, put the emergency vehicle in park, which caused it to lurch forward slightly. An agent evidently interpreted the vehicle’s forward movement as deliberate, and is said to have begun threatening the driver. The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver […]

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ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Deciding to join them, the driver, according to their report, put the emergency vehicle in park, which caused it to lurch forward slightly. An agent evidently interpreted the vehicle’s forward movement as deliberate, and is said to have begun threatening the driver. The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver […]

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ICE Detains U.S. Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look” American

Egypt is categorized as “not free” by an analysis from Freedom House, a democracy advocacy organization that formed nearly a century ago to rally the world against the threat of Nazi Germany. Political opposition in Egypt is nearly nonexistent. Civil liberties that are currently taken for granted in the U.S., such as the right to […]

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ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

Egypt is categorized as “not free” by an analysis from Freedom House, a democracy advocacy organization that formed nearly a century ago to rally the world against the threat of Nazi Germany. Political opposition in Egypt is nearly nonexistent. Civil liberties that are currently taken for granted in the U.S., such as the right to […]

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Pete Hegseth’s “No Fat Troops” Rule Is Wrecking Trump’s Deployments

Egypt is categorized as “not free” by an analysis from Freedom House, a democracy advocacy organization that formed nearly a century ago to rally the world against the threat of Nazi Germany. Political opposition in Egypt is nearly nonexistent. Civil liberties that are currently taken for granted in the U.S., such as the right to […]

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Pete Hegseth Sent National Guard Troops Home for Being Too Fat

Egypt is categorized as “not free” by an analysis from Freedom House, a democracy advocacy organization that formed nearly a century ago to rally the world against the threat of Nazi Germany. Political opposition in Egypt is nearly nonexistent. Civil liberties that are currently taken for granted in the U.S., such as the right to […]

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Trump Is Now Begging Dem Leaders to Let Him Send in National Guard

“We’re in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend of mine is right here,” Trump said. “The reason I call him the general is because he’s both, and he’s good at both, he’s done a fantastic job.” “They have very little crime, because they don’t play games, […]

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Trump Pleads With Democratic Governors to “Beg” Him for Help

“We’re in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend of mine is right here,” Trump said. “The reason I call him the general is because he’s both, and he’s good at both, he’s done a fantastic job.” “They have very little crime, because they don’t play games, […]

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