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The Democratic-controlled House is sending President Donald Trump a bipartisan $4.6 billion Senate-drafted measure to care for migrant refugees detained…
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Illinois House Democrats are pushing for a ban on for-profit immigrant detention centers like the one that’s been proposed in Dwight, calling them…
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UPDATED 4:35 p.m. | Sen. Dick Durbin says he wants to know if an Air National Guard firehouse project in Peoria is among those put at risk by the…
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Protesters who have fought a proposed federal immigration detention center in Dwight aren't giving up, even after the village formally endorsed the…
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The leader of a Bloomington-Normal social justice coalition says more focus needs to be on children at crisis in the world rather than the Russia…
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Bloomington Alderman Jamie Mathy said he regrets cancellation of the special meeting last week to deal with a new version of a Welcoming City…
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J.B. Pritzker opened a campaign office Thursday in Downtown Bloomington where he stood by his recent TV ad attacking Gov. Bruce Rauner.The ad paints…
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As the Bloomington City Council moved on from a twice-canceled vote on a controversial Welcoming City ordinance, local activists said Monday they’re…
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Bloomington Police would get an official reminder that their job is to enforce local and state laws—and not federal immigration law—under a proposed…
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis said Wednesday that President Trump’s new executive order to address his controversial zero-tolerance immigration policy may…