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Illinois
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 76 stories to Illinois since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Illinois.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Illinois
10 storiesICE agents detain a US citizen they mistook for their target in Evanston, Illinois, leaving him hospitalized with injuries to his head, neck and teeth.
DHS says he was "not cooperative"
23 states sue to block DHS rule letting officials deny green cards over food stamps or Medicaid, four days before it takes effect.
Prior version lost in court
21 states sue EPA over repealing power plant climate rules, which it paired with a step to bar future administrations from regulating that pollution.
Agency claims $300 billion industry savings
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in child care and safety net funding to Colorado, California, New York, Minnesota, and Illinois after officials couldn't provide evidence of fraud.
Based on one YouTuber's video
The Justice Department joins a conservative legal group's suit to dismantle Evanston's first-in-the-nation reparations program, calling race-based eligibility unconstitutional.
137 residents already received $3.47 million
Chicago US Attorney Boutros admits he personally addressed a grand jury before it indicted immigration protesters on a third attempt.
Misconduct charges later dropped
Justice Department refers Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll for criminal prosecution in Chicago over her funding testimony.
Won $83 million judgment against him
ProPublica documents 79 children harmed by federal tear gas and pepper spray during Trump immigration crackdown across multiple cities.
6 mo briefly stopped breathing in MN
Four Chicago protesters sue DHS and FBI to stop DNA collection from peaceful ICE protest arrests, citing CODIS surveillance abuse.
71-year-old Air Force veteran among plaintiffs
Trump administration sues Illinois, Connecticut and Arizona to block state gambling regulators from overseeing prediction markets where traders have profited from the president's military strikes.
Donald Trump Jr. advises both leading platforms
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesTrump-appointed U.S. attorney drops Chicago immigration protest case with prejudice after judge scrutinizes prosecutor meeting with grand juror outside proceedings.
Judge floated sanctions hearing about prosecutors
Illinois State Police investigates ICE killing of Silverio Villegas González eight months later, after damning Pritzker commission report.
Single father was shot in back of neck
Five Democratic states ask judge to block Trump administration from withholding child care funding; HHS claimed fraud without evidence while demanding recipients' Social Security numbers.
$10 billion annually, 1.3 million children
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