Aldermen knocked the simultaneous shutdown of several North Side and downtown bridges Wednesday as they vetted Mayor Brandon Johnson’s infrastructure spending proposals for next year.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign last quarter returned $120,000 from two political action committees both led by developers with active city contracts, the latest instances of his political fund giving back money amid ethical and accounting issues.

U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez and other Illinois elected officials and community leaders called on the Department of Homeland Security to release an immigrant currently in federal custody whose daughter is sick with Stage 4 cancer.

In a crowded but airy courtroom 75 miles from where a downstate sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Sonya Massey near Springfield in a case that stirred national outrage, a prosecutor said Wednesday the deputy shot Massey after he got mad at her while she held a pot of boiling water, while the deputy’s attorney told a jury the fatal shooting was in self-defense.

A federal judge in Chicago on Wednesday indefinitely extended her restraining order barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Illinois as both sides await a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could upend the case.

Four Indiana nonpartisan voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday for two new Indiana election proof of citizenship laws arguing that recently naturalized Hoosiers have been “needlessly harmed” by the unnecessary provisions.

Oak Park is considering prohibiting federal agents from using village property to help conduct immigration enforcement activity.

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith issued a statement Wednesday in support of redistricting, calling the Indiana Senate a place “where conservative ideas from the House go to die.”