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In a letter to principals released Tuesday evening, Chief Education Officer Janice Jackson wrote, "To be very clear, CPS does not provide assistance in the enforcement of civil immigration law."
They came to America from 15 different nations, but 25 immigrants are now American citizens.
One month after President Trump's inauguration, hundreds gathered near Trump Tower in Chicago to once again demonstrate.
Dozens of restaurants and other businesses were shutting their doors on Thursday, as part of a "Day Without Immigrants," a nationwide protest against President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
His restaurants say they are showing solidarity with staff who wish to participate in immigration demonstrations.
Preckwinkle, a Democrat, minced no words in her assessment of Trump's first few weeks in office, a time she called sobering and troubling.
Passengers are frantically flying into the U.S. in case President Trump's travel ban is reinstated.
Convicted drug offender Miguel Perez, 38, never became a U.S. citizen but was in the Army and served in Afghanistan.
Miguel Perez, 38, and a Chicagoan, was in the country legally when he joined the Army in 2001. And he was under the mistaken impression that his military service automatically made him a citizen.
Volunteers from Temple Jeremiah have been preparing to welcome the women, but the executive order put their transit in a state of limbo.
They say the President's move to block refugees will do little more than hurt people who need help.
The niece of the Syrian woman sent back spoke to CBS 2.
But the Department of Homeland Security said the temporary court order releasing the detainees does not affect Trump's overall travel ban.
Dozens of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries were detained at airports across the country on Saturday, because of President Donald Trump's travel ban, but immigration attorneys said they were later released after a federal judge temporarily blocked deportations.
This is a day that 33-year-old Tania Unzueta was afraid would come, ever since President Trump first started talking about a wall when he was a presidential candidate.
Many attendees worried about what new President Donald Trump could do to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA.
A popular Avondale eatery has won the praise of a leading immigration rights advocacy group, after joining the "sanctuary restaurant" movement.
Even though Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump recently seems to have toned down his hard-line rhetoric on immigration, Illinois Democrats said he can't be trusted to soften his actual position.
More than 4 million undocumented immigrants are open to possible deportation.
Congressman Luis Gutierrez and other advocates for immigrants said the race for president has prompted more immigrants than ever to go through the process and expense of applying for citizenship, either out of fear or to make their voices heard at the polls.
Advocates for immigration reform and refugee rights are planning to march from Chicago to the Republican and Democratic conventions this summer.
Jose Juan Moreno has been in the U.S. illegally for 15 years. Now, he has settled into a sparse room at University Church in hopes of keeping his family together. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports.
Immigration rights activists rallied in the Daley Plaza and marched through the Loop, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts.
As one of those who encouraged President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was hoping the Supreme Court would uphold the president's initiative.
Members of an immigrants' rights group went door-to-door Saturday in the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood.
