Politics

ProPublica Illinois is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. Sign up for our newsletter to get weekly updates written by our journalists. I’m happy to report this week that the Chicago City Council overwhelmingly approved a pretty major set of reforms to the city’s system of ticketing and debt collection.…

The U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 25 north of Las Cruces. (Heath Haussamen/NMPolitics.net) COMMENTARY: We’re accustomed to occupation around here. The Spanish took this land by force in 1598 from the Native people who were here. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, the United States took the land, again by force. We’re…

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Donald Trump said he was ‘concerned about the rise of any group of hate’ and referred to white supremacists and anti-fascist activists. The US president was leaving to travel to Dayton and El Paso to meet with first responders, families and victims of the recent shootings when he…