Illinois Medicaid insures more than 3 million individuals, but the state’s strategy seems to be: “We’d love to help, but not too much.”

Platkin was among the officials from 18 states, San Francisco and Washington, DC, who filed the case in federal court in Boston. Washington State Attorney General Nicholas Brown led a coalition of four other states, including Illinois, that filed a similar lawsuit in the Seattle federal court.

Several states have new gun laws going into effect in 2025. Everytown for Gun Safety released a new ranking Wednesday of the laws in all 50 states.

Illinois joined a list of states filing a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s new executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship.

Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.

CHICAGO ( NewsNation) — Migrants in Chicago are growing increasingly anxious as they brace for potential mass deportation raids, which could begin as soon as Tuesday. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders related to immigration, including declaring a national emergency at the border.

A coalition of Democratic attorneys general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts seeking to block President Donald Trump's attempt to revoke the right to automatic birthright citizenship.

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Indiana legislators would like to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border to absorb parts of Illinois, but the proposed action would face roadblocks on the Illinois side, which would prevent a border

The lawsuit to block the president’s executive order is the first salvo in what is likely to be a long-running legal fight over immigration policy.

The executive order would apply to any children born after the order takes effect, but many are concerned that the Trump administration could take it beyond newborns.

Last year, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul wrote non-home-rule counties in Illinois, which is every country except Cook County, do not have the power to secede. He also held that the state’s Election Code does not contain provisions allowing counties the power to hold binding referendums on whether they can secede from Illinois.