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Defying rules of the Senate and in protest of the confirmation process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, New Jersey Democrat, Sen. Cory Booker on Thursday released documents pertaining to Kavanaugh's record deemed "confidential" by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
That issue had been the last sticking point in a draft consent decree announced by Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel in July.
President Barack Obama, to the chagrin of some Democrats, has spent much of 2018 on the sidelines to what top party operatives believe is a generational fight against President Donald Trump. That ends Friday.
As costs of medical care have continued to march upward, the safety net has gotten bigger, modestly, to subsidize some of them.
"I come from a place where if you're not in a position to execute the commander's intent, you have a singular option, that is to leave."
With the departure of retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, abortion rights could hang on Kavanaugh's vote.
President Trump reacted for the first time Wednesday to an op-ed The New York Times published from someone identified only as a senior administration official, who says they are part of the "resistance" holding back the president's "half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions."
Since dropping the bombshell that he won't seek a third term in office, there has been plenty of speculation about why Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn't running for re-election.
Biden also stressed to the crowd that the upcoming November midterm elections are "the most important election any of us have voted in so far."
She appeared with fellow co-chairs including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Hanks in a public service announcement in July encouraging people to register to vote and to participate in elections.
The op-ed offers a first-hand account that corroborates key themes of a new damning book about Trump's presidency by the veteran journalist Bob Woodward.
A senior White House official says members of the White House staff are working to thwart parts of President Trump's agenda and to save him from himself and from harming the country.
Bezos has made political contributions, including a $2.5 million donation in 2012 to help uphold the state's same-sex marriage law, but none this large.
Trump on Monday accused the Justice Department of targeting the Republicans ahead of the midterms.
The 44-year-old Pressley, already a rising star in Democratic politics, cast the race as about Democrats' need for a new, more assertive style in the Donald Trump era.
"When we gaslight and contradict what the public can plainly see with their own eyes, we lose all credibility," one DHS official said.
Sens. Chris Murphy and Alex Padilla have spent the past two days calling colleagues to whip opposition to the DHS funding bill, according to a source familiar with the process.
The 5-year-old immigrant boy taken into ICE custody alongside his father in Minnesota has an active immigration case and cannot be legally deported yet, records reviewed by CBS News indicate.
A federal judge says the Trump administration must keep the money flowing for now for programs aimed at helping low-income families with children in five states.
A year ago, a law that effectively banned TikTok in the U.S. went into effect, though President Trump has not enforced it.
This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza emphasized some safety tips Monday for avoiding and dealing with identity theft.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
It has been nearly six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the many questions doctors are still working to answer concerns the long-term effects.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
Roughly 1.4 million fewer Americans have signed up for an Affordable Care Act plan as expiring tax breaks drive up premiums.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
Does the Chicago Bears' dramatic improvement this season, culminating in their first playoff run in five years, change the discussion about where they will build a new stadium?
In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, revealed that the right frontal lobe of his brain was injured in a car accident 25 years ago.
Sales of tickets to NHL games jumped more than 20% after the hit HBO show debuted in the fall, according to ticket vendor.
Among the names missing when the 98th Academy Award nominations were announced were Ariana Grande, George Clooney, Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, and anyone associated with "Wicked: For Good."
The nominees for the 98th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, and though "One Battle After Another," "Marty Supreme," "Frankenstein" and "Hamnet" were all nominated for plenty, it was "Sinners" that broke through with a record-smashing 16 nominations.
Prince Harry struck a combative tone as he testified in his lawsuit against the Daily Mail's publisher.
The announcement on Monday has raised questions about how Brett Smith was hired in the first place, and parents at the school where he most recently worked in Evergreen Park are fired up.
The college teamed up with the Cook County Department of Corrections to offer inmates an opportunity to earn industry-recognized credentials in forklifting.
Tuesday afternoon highs will be back into the teens with breezy conditions lasting throughout the day, making the wind chills range from the single digits at times during the afternoon.
CPD said in each of the incidents, four to seven suspects gained entry into businesses by breaking a glass front door or window with sledgehammers or pry bars.
New data from Kelley Blue Book showed buyers paid an average of more than $50,000 for a new car last month.
The attorney for a woman who was shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood last year is seeking to force the release of body camera footage of the incident.
The Archdiocese of Chicago has fired a teacher with a history of child molestation allegations in Illinois and other states.
Inmates are getting the chance to learn a trade to help them find a job when they get out.
The village said it now considers the matter closed with no further discussion.
A 29-year-old man accused of shooting the victims remains in custody. No charges were filed as of Monday.
As temperatures fell below zero in Chicago on Friday, tenants of a public housing complex in the East Garfield Park neighborhood said they were freezing inside their own homes due to insufficient heat.
Chicago is marking 30 years since it started its first citywide recycling program, which began with a problematic kickoff, and continues to lag behind other major cities in terms of performance.
More than a year before identical twin brothers stopped teaching at the Thornton Fractional School District, administrators were aware of allegations that one of them had been sexually assaulting a student.
Chicago relies on the CTA to get around, but there's some resistance to that reliance with safety concerns continuing to plague the mass transit system.
The Joliet Police Department is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit for patting down a 12-year-old girl who was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over for not having lights on.
The Bulls closed the first half with a 7-0 spurt, trimming the Lakers' lead to 69-56.
Jay Vine was knocked from his bike when two large kangaroos bounced onto the road on a high speed section.
The teams generated only a handful of chances through the first and second periods, and neither pressured with a territorial edge.
Coby White scored 22 points and hit five of Chicago's 21 3s, helping the Bulls win their fourth straight.
The Illini hit 18 of 38 3-pointers while Purdue was 7 of 19.
Chicago police issued a warning over the weekend about burglars targeting homes on Chicago's South Side.
A woman was charged with attempted murder this past weekend, nearly a year after investigators said she shot another woman on Chicago's Northwest Side.
Two men were hospitalized early Monday after they were shot while driving in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood.
A man was shot early Sunday when he confronted two people trying to break into a car in the north suburban Morton Grove.
A 36-year-old woman and a 4-year-old boy were killed in a homicide in Joliet, Illinois, on Sunday morning, according to police.
