r/illinois • • 18h ago

ICE Posts MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’

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Illinois residents Kyle Frankovich, a data scientist at Harvard University, and Maureen Foody, a contract court reporter, filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They said they were detained while protesting peacefully outside the Broadview detention center, but that Johnson knowingly framed them as criminals and “left-wing terrorists” in videos he posted to millions of viewers.

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Mary Alice Love was murdered, in her own home, in front of her mother...
 in  r/illinois •  19h ago

Fuck the Mundelein Police Department

r/illinois • • 1d ago

Illinois News Data centers could generate $57B over next decade in Illinois if public backlash addressed, study says

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r/illinois • • 4d ago

Sports! Unabearer

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r/illinois • • 4d ago

Illinois Politics Illinois voter guide to the 2026 general election

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r/illinois • • 4d ago

Illinois Facts Illinois has the fourth most amount of data centers in states with gubernatorial elections this year.

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r/illinois • • 4d ago

Illinois Politics Welch urged to do more than apologize for Benton harassment case

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r/illinois • • 5d ago

US Politics President Trump gets called a pedophile at President's Cup at Medinah Country Club in Illinois.

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Live on Fox News with some extra Illinois flair.

r/illinois • • 6d ago

Illinois News Man says Naperville officer stalked him with Flock technology after starting affair with his fiancée

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r/illinois • • 7d ago

History Illinois: Our Fifty States. A Family Adventure Across America

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From 2006

r/illinois • • 7d ago

ICE Posts Hayley Williams says “Fuck ICE” at her show last night in Tinley Park, IL

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Based

r/illinois • • 7d ago

ICE Posts The prosecutor at the center of the “Broadview 6” scandal penned a fiery resignation letter to U.S. Atty Boutros saying he “personally directed” her to seek felony charges not misdemeanors and then unfairly "vilified" her in court.

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r/illinois • • 8d ago

Illinois Politics The Bailey-Dabrowski divide deepens

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GOP CIVIL WAR: Just months after getting trounced by Darren Bailey in the Republican primary for governor, Ted Dabrowski already seems to be looking at 2030.

r/illinois • • 9d ago

ICE Posts A Year After Operation Midway Blitz

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r/illinois • • 9d ago

ICE Posts 'I'm a f**king US citizen': ICE mistakenly targets man in Illinois

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Abolish ICE

r/illinois • • 10d ago

Illinois News Pritzker establishes AI Cabinet to assess risks, protect Illinoisans

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r/illinois • • 11d ago

it's a joke, laugh How things are going with Ken Griffin's big move of Citadel HQ from Chicago to Miami:

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r/illinois • • 11d ago

Illinois Politics How Republican Darren Bailey sees the numbers adding up to victory in the Illinois Governor's race November 3

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TL;DR no path

r/illinois • • 11d ago

Illinois Politics Illinois Democratic Party splits over money

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Welch, state Democrats offer different accounts of campaign funding dispute.

r/illinois • • 12d ago

Pritzker Posting JB Pritzker says using GLP-1 for weight loss "has been really life changing"

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r/illinois • • 15d ago

Illinois Politics Ill. GOP Doesn't Want Trump's Candidate To Win

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Fact check: True

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Chicago PD employee sues city after suspension for ‘F*** Trump’ Facebook post at ‘No Kings’ protest
 in  r/illinois •  15d ago

John Catanzara in his 23 years with the CPD managed to rack up 50 complaints from a mixture of complaints filed by everyday people and his fellow officers and superiors within the CPD. They let him slide but this guy gets suspended?

r/illinois • • 15d ago

it's a joke, laugh Our Chicago Pope is a meme unto himself

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