Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday celebrated his enactment of a new law that advocates say will avert catastrophic service cuts on Chicago’s public transit systems and make the region’s trains and buses safer and more reliable — even as he acknowledged “transformation takes a little bit of time.”

The City Council group released plans to close a $42 million 2026 budget gap created by them removing a garbage fee increase from their package and restoring youth job funding.

It recommends state build more renewable power, transmission lines, and battery storage, and potentially delay fossil-fuel plant closings.

The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.

Former Indiana Secretary of Public Safety Jennifer-Ruth Green agreed to a $10,000 fine in her ethics violations complaint, according to an agreed settlement with the Indiana State Ethics Commission.

Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only Black governor — that disappointed many fellow Democrats.

Thornton Township Democratic Committeeman Napoleon Harris will face former ally and township Trustee Stephanie Wiedeman in the primary.

As the Trump administration’s mass deportation raids continue, their impact has stretched across the Chicago region. Here’s what to know.