NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday shot back at President Donald Trump‘s potential plans to temporarily federalize the city, calling on citizens to “protect Chicago from Donald Trump.” Johnson was responding to one of Trump’s Truth Social posts, which said he “loves the smell of deportations in…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal appeals court approved Illinois’ ban on carrying firearms on public transit, reversing a lower court ruling that found the gun restrictions passed more than a decade ago violated the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed down its…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Homeland Security is keeping the pressure on Illinois leaders amid a looming National Guard and federal immigration enforcement surge in Chicago, as Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker says it would be a possible “invasion.” President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that he’ll send the feds…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The drowning of 63-year-old Nabil Abzal has been deemed a homicide, according to information provided to Fox News Digital by a spokesperson for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. The Chicago Fire Department “recovered the body of an unidentified adult male from the water” on Saturday, the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Chicago man with a felony record who has been charged in connection with an Aug. 10 train station attack that left a 9-year-old boy dead was released from jail Monday while he awaits trial. Michael Korosa, 52, has been charged with felony involuntary manslaughter after Elijah…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Saturday prohibiting city police officers from collaborating with National Guard troops or federal agents if President Donald Trump follows through on his threats to deploy them to the Windy City. “This executive order makes it emphatically…
Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a sweeping but largely symbolic executive order Saturday afternoon to protect residents’ rights in preparation for federal agents possibly arriving in Chicago. The order also seeks to bar any federal agents working in Chicago from wearing masks, and to require them to wear badges and other identifying information. The Democratic mayor’s…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Illinois’ Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said the state “will not stand idly by” if President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to respond to crime in the Windy City. “Unlike Donald Trump, we keep our promises,” the governor wrote…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump continued back-and-forth jabs with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson late Tuesday night as the Windy City experienced another deadly weekend. In a post on Truth Social, the president called Pritzker “incompetent” and said Johnson is “no better” while talking about…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Illinois man was arrested after he allegedly drugged his pregnant girlfriend with abortion-inducing pills, causing her to have a miscarriage, according to police. Emerson Evans, 31, was charged with two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, Bloomington police said in a news release. Officers…
