Lawyers for the ACLU of Illinois and the National Immigrant Justice Center request for a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Trump Administration seeking to force the state and local government to abandon their laws and participate in the Administration’s mass deportation program. 

Twenty-two people, including a U.S. citizen from Chicago, subjected to unlawful arrests and detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the early weeks of the second Trump administration.

The hearing is expected to focus on whether local communities – including Chicago – remain free to set their own law enforcement policies or if they must abandon local priorities to participate in Trump’s mass deportation scheme. 

The Illinois Senate Criminal Law Committee today will consider Senate Bill 42, a measure that addresses unnecessary confusion about when police officers can use the odor of cannabis as a reason to stop or search a motorist’s car.

The Trump Administration filed a federal lawsuit challenging statewide and local policies in Illinois that bar state and local law enforcement from engaging in federal civil immigration enforcement. 

Kevin Fee has been named the new Legal Director for the ACLU of Illinois.

 A group of Chicago City Council members have sent a letter to the Chicago Mayor calling an exhibit featuring a puppet with caricatures of Uncle Sam and the Prime Minister of Israel "extremely offensive/"

Administrators and leaders are being warned that changes to the University’s speech and protest policies, and overzealous discipline of student protestors, are having a chilling effect on expression on the campus.

The Illinois House concurred in the adoption of House Bill 4781 (the KIND Act), sending the bill to Governor Pritzker.