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Roofs were ripped off buildings, trees were uprooted, flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport, and thousands were left without power overnight as a “mega cluster” of tornadoes touched down in at least four areas in and around Chicago on Wednesday evening.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is considering signing legislation into law that would allow illegal aliens, enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, to become police officers in the sanctuary state.

Officials in Chicago, Illinois have moved more than three dozen border crossers and illegal aliens out of a police station in the city’s southwest side after allegations that officers were having sex with some of the new arrivals, including a teenage girl.

Illinois will soon require landlords to rent and sell property to illegal aliens, opening the housing market to tens of thousands considered deportable from the United States, even as rents remain sky-high in metropolitan areas like Chicago.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is halting a program, put in place only a few years ago, that offers taxpayer-subsidized health care benefits to illegal aliens after realizing the tremendous cost to the state’s taxpayers. 

A newly arrived migrant to the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, has been charged with felony theft after allegedly shoplifting over $3,100 worth of merchandise from Ralph Lauren.

A recent study by personal finance company WalletHub tracked which states had the most economic “racial equlity,” and it turned out the deep blue state of Illinois was dead last, despite the ultra-woke policies of the state’s controlling Democrats.

Shots rang out, and six people were injured at the Juneteenth celebration in Democrat-run Milwaukee, Wisconsin, just before 4:30 p.m. Monday.

A bystander nearly drowned trying to save a woman who fell off a pontoon boat on a lake in Illinois on Father’s Day.

At least 21 people were shot, one of them fatally, at a Juneteenth celebration in gun-controlled Illinois Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m.

The College Republicans student group at Northwestern University scored a free speech win by defeating a funding freeze that was implemented by the school’s student government after the conservative group hosted author and Critical Race Theory (CRT) opponent James Lindsay.

A transgender law student who attended the prestigious Northwestern School of Law reportedly complained about his “white bitchy psychologist” as part of his application and went on to write about “dildos” and having sex with “Trumpies” in the school’s law journal.

The deeply failing state of Illinois lost nearly 150,000 citizens to other states, many to Florida and Tennessee, but even more to neighboring states including Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

In an unprecedented event in the healthcare industry, St. Margaret’s Health in Spring Valley, Illinois, is set to close its doors, partially due to a crippling ransomware attack that occurred in 2021. This marks the first time a hospital has publicly attributed its closure to a cyberattack. One administrator explained the extent of the cyberattack, saying,  “You’re dead in the water. We were down a minimum of 14 weeks. And then you’re trying to recover. Nothing went out. No claims. Nothing got entered. So it took months and months and months.” she said.

Chicago, Illinois, officials have turned Richard J. Daley College into a migrant shelter where now roughly 400 border crossers and illegal aliens are living. 

Chicago, Illinois Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is celebrating the City Council’s approval to spend $51 million on newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens — against objections from local taxpayers who said their needs are being put last in favor of foreign nationals. 

Two 2-year-olds were wounded in separate shootings that occurred just hours apart in Chicago on Sunday evening, ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times reported. 

Almost 400 foreign nationals have been found on voter rolls in Cook County, Illinois, home to the city of Chicago, and subsequently asked to have their registrations canceled since 2007, according to election data shared with Breitbart News.

Three Venezuelan nationals have been charged with a series of crimes after having recently arrived, potentially on migrant buses, in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois. 

The Supreme Court of the United States announced Wednesday it has chosen not to intervene against the Naperville “assault weapons” ban, but instead will let the judicial process run its normal course.

A South Elgin, Illinois, girl who vanished years ago was located in North Carolina on Saturday and will be reunited with her family.

Newly-sworn in Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) welcomed border crossers and illegal aliens to the sanctuary city in his inaugural address on Monday just as black Chicagoans protest illegal immigration flooding their neighborhoods. 

Border crossers and illegal aliens arriving in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois are showing up with colds, pink eye, and carrying the Chinese coronavirus as Mayor Lori Lightfoot has declared a state of emergency.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) has declared a state of emergency for the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, stating that the city has hit a “breaking point” and is “full” due to illegal immigration flows arriving from the United States-Mexico border.

On Monday the state of Illinois and city of Naperville responded to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s notice that they respond to an injunction request against their “assault weapon” bans.

An Illinois drunk driver captured on police body cam smiling and giggling after striking and killing a couple last year was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison. Stephanie Melgoza, 24,  pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated DUI and

A National Shooting Sports Foundation report on April background checks shows gun sales surged in states where “radical measures” against Second Amendment rights have been adopted or are about to take effect.

Six drivers died and more than 30 were injured Monday on Interstate 55 after dozens of cars and trucks slammed into each other during a dust storm near Springfield in central Illinois.

U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn issued a preliminary injunction against Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban Friday, noting in his opinion that there are already plenty of gun laws on the books and those laws need to be enforced.

A man accused of stabbing his girlfriend allegedly told her, “I thought you were dead” when she woke up several hours later.

Illinois taxpayers are set to be hit with a billion-dollar bill providing healthcare benefits to newly arrived illegal aliens in the state thanks to Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), according to estimates.

Missing U.S. Navy sailor Seamus Gray was found dead on Wednesday. His body was pulled from Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Illinois.

Officials have reportedly implemented updated rules to keep people from trying to smuggle drug-laced papers into Illinois’ Cook County Jail. 

An Illinois teenager has been arrested for allegedly selling “fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills that were intended to resemble legitimate prescription medications,” according to police.

Border crossers and illegal aliens, recently bused to the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, from Texas, have been found living inside a downtown police station, local reports confirm.

Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D) is hoping to transform Illinois’s most populous city with his progressive agenda, including opening local school board elections to illegal aliens, among other foreign nationals.