The funding freeze could affect trillions of dollars and cause widespread disruption in health care research, education programs and other initiatives. Grants that have been awarded but not spent are also halted.

Hours after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it was freezing potentially trillions of dollars in federal grants and other fiscal aid across the nation, Illinois agencies were having trouble accessing Medicaid systems,

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard mismanaged hundreds of thousands of dollars over multiple years in a new report.

The combination of strong winds, dry conditions, and warm temperatures increases the risk of wildfires, particularly in grassy or wooded areas.

Raoul and five other Democratic attorneys general claim the White House's freeze on federal assistance programs is unconstitutional.

The move follows President Donald Trump’s directive to pause nearly all federal funding. Medicaid, the health care program for low-income people and families, is jointly administered by the federal and state government,

The freeze on federal funding and grants has wide-ranging implications and impacts everything from funding for child care, university research and roads and bridges.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker face criticism for falsely claiming ICE agents attempted to conduct a raid at an elementary school.

The tie-up accessing funds puts the short-term future of 3.9 million Illinoisans who rely on the government program into question.

The bloom is off the rose for these Illini (14-6, 6-4 Big Ten), who went from being underrated by the college basketball illuminati early this season to now arguably underperforming as the expectations around them have risen. The climb up the mountain, as always, gets harder with every subsequent step toward the top.

Illinois Senate Republicans introduced a new bill Tuesday that would require state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to report and deport undocumented immigrants who have been charged with felonies.

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