Chicago Sun-Times

The pause in funding comes about a week after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it was freezing child care funds in Minnesota, and asking for an audit of day care centers amid allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents.

Democrat Michael Madigan was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and reported to a minimum-security federal prison camp in West Virginia earlier this fall. An appeals court denied his request to be released while an appeal is pending.

Justice Department lawyers argued that U.S. District Judge April Perry “impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief.” “This is a victory for our state,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said after the court’s ruling.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged.

Edgar was the state’s 38th governor, serving two terms from 1991 to 1999. He also served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1976 to 1979 and as Illinois secretary of state from 1981 to 1991.

Hundreds of federal agents are being sent to a suburban naval base from Los Angeles, where an immigration blitz spurred protests that pushed President Trump to call in the National Guard. Trump has since threatened to send the Guard to Chicago while promising a crime crackdown and immigration arrests.

Nationwide, the Trump administration slashed funding to AmeriCorps grants by $184 million, prompting a preliminary injunction by a court in June and a joint lawsuit by officials in 23 states, including Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday threatening to suspend or terminate federal funding for cities and states, like Illinois, that have eliminated cash bail.

The attorneys general said an expected $219 million in federal education funding used to pay for after-school and summer programs for 1.4 million students nationwide could be in jeopardy.

Mitchell is a former Hyde Park state representative who also served as Pritzker's deputy governor.