Gov. JB Pritzker said he’s received no word from the Trump administration following reports it intends to use the Naval Station Great Lakes outside Chicago to house federal immigration agents or National Guard troops.

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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias speaks at a news conference on July 30, 2025. (WTTW News)

License Plate Camera Company Operating in Illinois Halts Cooperation With Federal Agencies Amid Concerns

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias raised concerns and announced Monday that an audit found Customs and Border Protection had accessed Illinois data, although he didn’t say that the agency was seeking immigration-related information. A 2023 law the Democrat pushed bars sharing license plate data with police investigating out-of-state abortions or undocumented immigrants.

In Scathing Letter, NASA Workers Rebuke ‘Rapid and Wasteful Changes’ at Agency

| CNN

Donald Trump Threatens to Hold Up Football Stadium Deal If Washington Commanders Don’t Switch Back to Redskins

| Associated Press

Ford Foundation’s Outgoing President Joins the Board of Obama Foundation

| Associated Press

Week in Review: City Council Approves Ethics Reforms; ‘Snap Curfew’ Veto Stands

| Shelby Hawkins

Cook County Democrats Back Croke for Comptroller, No Endorsement for Senate Race

| Andrew Adams — Capitol News Illinois

NASCAR Chicago Street Race Will Not Return Next Year, Keeps Door Open for 2027

| Eunice Alpasan

Study: Education Still Pays, But Barriers to Upward Mobility Persist in Illinois

| Peter Hancock — Capitol News Illinois

Scholarship Applications Open For Low-Income Chicago Students Attending College, Trade Schools

| Eunice Alpasan

Cutting and Pasting: The Art of Collage on Display at Beverly Arts Center

| Marc Vitali

The ‘Rosebud’ Sled From ‘Citizen Kane’ Sells for $14.75 Million

| CNN

‘I’ve Done What I Came to Do’: Inspector General Deborah Witzburg on Her Decision Not to Seek 2nd Term as Watchdog

| Heather Cherone

Trump Administration Seeks Release of Epstein Grand Jury Records but Not Justice Department Files

| Associated Press

Trump ‘Declaring War’ on Public Broadcasting After Funding Reversed, Sen. Dick Durbin Says

| Matt Masterson

Congress Gives Final Approval to Trump’s $9 Billion Cut to Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid

| Associated Press

July 17, 2025 - Full Show

| WTTW News

Former Chicago Immigration Judges Discuss Trump Administration Firings

| Paul Caine

Chicago’s Top Lawyer on Ethics Reform, the Cost of Police Misconduct Lawsuits

| Bridgette Adu-Wadier

Illinois Will Continue Providing LGBTQ+ Youth Support on 988 Suicide Prevention Hotline Amid Federal Cuts

| Eunice Alpasan

City Inspector General Deborah Witzburg to Leave Post After 1 Term

| Matt Masterson

Donald Trump Checked for Lower Leg Swelling and Diagnosed With Condition Common in Older Adults

| Associated Press

Pritzker Seeks More Regulatory Authority Over Homeowners Insurance Business

| Peter Hancock — Capitol News Illinois

Find Echoes of the Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg at Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery

| Marc Vitali

Lightfoot Joins Hundreds of Ex-DOJ Employees Condemning Trump Judicial Nominee Emil Bove

| Matt Masterson

Trump Administration Hands Over Medicaid Recipients’ Personal Data, Including Addresses, to ICE

| Associated Press

Pritzker Joins Letter Demanding Release of Federal Education Funding, Including $240M for Illinois

| Eunice Alpasan

Astronomers Detect Massive Black Hole Collision, With Both Larger Than a Hundred Suns

| CNN

Number of Unhoused Chicagoans Dropped 60% But Remains at All-Time High, Survey Found

| Heather Cherone

Urban League Declares a ‘State of Emergency’ for Civil Rights in the US in Response to Donald Trump

| Associated Press

Trump’s Defunding of Public Media Will Be ‘Devastating’ for Rural PBS and NPR Stations, Leaders Say

| CNN

Senate Passes Trump’s $9 Billion in Spending Cuts to Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid

| Associated Press

From an ‘Amélie’ Musical to Arthur the Aardvark, Here Are 7 Picks for Local Arts Events

| Marc Vitali

July 16, 2025 - Full Show

| WTTW News
 

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