City lawyers plan to urge the Finance Committee to advance the deal Monday for Arnold Day, who confessed to two 1991 slayings. Day has long alleged Chicago police coerced the confession.

When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau’s Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement.

Senators unanimously approved a resolution Thursday to withhold their pay during government shutdowns, an attempt to make federal closures financially painful for lawmakers after a string of record-breaking impasses in the past year.

Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, state senators on Thursday are considering a plan that would eliminate a majority-Black district while giving Republicans a chance to win an additional seat in the November midterm elections.

Black south suburban leaders urged people to vote in November following a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act.

Former Monee Clerk Doneshia Codjoe was sentenced to four days in jail and two years probation after pleading guilty to loan fraud.

The Lake County Board of Elections and Registration reviewed more than two dozen provisional ballots and absentee vote-by-mail ballots with mismatched signatures to determine if they should be accepted or rejected at its Thursday meeting.

A stack of folded-up speech notes — and intervention from a medical team in Chicago — helped save President Theodore Roosevelt’s life, but not his effort to win a third term, 114 years ago.