“If the federal government will not hold these rogue actors accountable, then Chicago will do everything in our power to bring these agents to justice,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

Another government shutdown looms as Democrats demand an immigration enforcement cool-down. And changes are coming to SNAP, affecting hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents.

A judge is ordering former Mayor Rahm Emanuel to testify in a trial over a botched police raid. And what’s at stake as the country awaits a Supreme Court ruling on the president’s tariffs.

The tariffs case took on added urgency because the consequences of the Trump administration’s policy were playing out in real time.

A trial, set to start Monday, will decide whether CPD officers traumatized two women and four children in August when a CPD SWAT team broke down the door of their apartment, pointed assault rifles directly at the kids and ordered one of the women to leave the house while unclothed.

Why the Cook County state’s attorney is reversing a policy on gun possession cases. And Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez announces his bid for Congress.

More than 300,000 Illinoisians who receive SNAP benefits could be affected, according to officials from the Illinois Department of Human Services.

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.

Three Catholic cardinals are speaking out about some of the Trump administration’s recent foreign policy actions.

Concerns over the Second Amendment after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota. And Cardinal Blase Cupich calls for peace in U.S. foreign policy.

Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon.

Some 500,000 fans showed up to celebrate, withstanding a windchill of 25 below zero, to welcome the home team along a route that started at LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard and ended at Daley Plaza for a rally.

More work lies ahead in preventing shootings and in saving lives, according to stakeholders working to reduce violent crime and provide needed support to victims and their families.