The Trump administration has signaled a government shutdown could lead to mass firings. LaHood said he hopes it doesn’t come to that, but granted that would be the executive branch’s discretion.
If government funding legislation isn’t passed by Congress and signed by Trump on Tuesday night, many government offices across the nation will be temporarily shuttered and nonexempt federal employees will be furloughed.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suspended a student after he spray painted on the columns of Foellinger Auditorium in the spring. With no opportunity to reenroll, he feels the move was unjust.
Sen. Dick Durbin brought $8 million to UIUC over five years for research on bee DNA. He came to campus on Thursday to see the results.
Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin will halt abortions Oct. 1. Trump’s tax and spending law includes a provision barring abortion providers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
Bailey was 2022 GOP nominee who called city a ‘hellhole,’ lost to Pritzker by 13 points
District Court for the District of Rhode Island Judge William E. Smith rejected the “arbitrary and capricious” conditions laid out by the Trump administration regarding immigration enforcement, saying the order was unconstitutional and violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has left Illinois officials from Gov. JB Pritzker down to local police chiefs almost entirely in the dark about the government’s “Operation Midway Blitz.”
Professors across Illinois report receiving threats after being listed on the site.
Pointing finger at Trump’s “disastrous policies”, Pritzker directs state agencies to find 4% in budget cuts.
Mourners fill the pews at Central Baptist Church near the state Capitol to mourn and praise the moderate two-term Republican who brought Cook County, the collar counties and downstate Illinois together.
An online database compiled by Turning Point USA, affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, identifies nearly 50 Illinois college instructors it labels “radical professors.”
Trump credits Kirk with playing a pivotal role in his 2024 election victory. The 31-year-old firebrand was killed at a Sept. 10 appearance on a Utah college campus.
Since the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said his caucus has been briefed regularly by the Illinois State Police and other groups about potential threats.
Attorney general sued for release of grant funding allocated by Biden-era law