City Council during their regular 11 a.m. meeting Tuesday could once again discuss Chicago’s status as a “sanctuary city,” an issue that last week that led to tense exchanges, ...

The City of Chicago has joined a coalition of local governments suing the Trump Administration over the withholding of ...

Portland’s progressive-leaning city council is exploring ways to expel Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from a ...

The lawsuit, filed by 66 cities, challenges President Donald Trump's administration initiatives that seek to withhold federal ...

Chicago must remain a sanctuary city because ‘that is who we are’ We rejected Donald Trump’s xenophobia in 2016 and 2020, and Chicago must reject it now as the presidential election and ...

The City of Chicago joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its crackdown on sanctuary cities. City officials ...

The meeting was called after Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) proposed an advisory referendum that would ask voters during the March primary if Chicago should keep its sanctuary city status, but allies of ...

Chicago became a sanctuary city in 1985 through an executive order by its mayor at the time, Harold Washington. In 2012, Mayor Rahm Emanuel passed a “welcoming city” ordinance that protected illegal ...

Two uncomfortable but incontrovertible truths are becoming evident about Chicago and its relationship with the thousands of migrants who have arrived here in recent weeks One is that tents are ...

Chicago’s path to being a sanctuary city began more than 40 years ago. What follows is a look back at the leaders and laws that have shaped Chicago’s involvement with the sanctuary movement.

The sanctuary city program, with its unsustainable financial implications, now threatens Chicago with a fiscal Armageddon that its residents will ultimately pay for.

When Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, caught wind of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s suggestion to house migrants inside the luxe Hotel Chicago Downtown, at 333 N. Dearborn St. in Marina City, his rhetoric ...