Mary Norkol

For federal workers living paycheck to paycheck, the shutdown could mean choosing between paying for groceries or prescriptions, says National Treasury Employees Union National President Doreen Greenwald.

Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.

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.

Northwestern University President Michael Schill was questioned at a Congressional hearing last May and accused of not doing enough to stem antisemitism on campus.

In a legal brief, Kwame Raoul and 19 other attorneys general argue that Homeland Security policy inflicts “irreparable harms” on immigrants and wastes taxpayer dollars.

For tourists, Illinois is the place to be for the historic cicada emergence. The 17-year brood in the state’s northern half and the 13-year brood in the southern part are set to converge near Springfield.