The Tribune spoke with Nicole Hallett, a clinical law professor at University of Chicago, and Diana Rashid, managing attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center, to learn more about what

Illinois is joining five other states in suing to stop President Donald Trump’s recent push to temporarily freeze federal loans, grants and other financial aid. Attorneys general from Illinois,

In its quest to get a million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, Illinois was counting on $148 million in federal funding to help build a statewide network of public EV chargers. Now that funding has been frozen — and targeted for possible reduction or elimination — under a wide-ranging executive order that President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office.

Illinois lawmakers are unpacking the implications of President Donald Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans, while the state's attorney general joined a multi-state coalition seeking to block it.

The move follows President Donald Trump’s directive to pause nearly all federal funding. Medicaid, the health care program for low-income people and families, is jointly administered by the federal and state government,

Governor JB Pritzker, Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul speak on the effects of Donald Trump's freeze to essential federal programs in Illinois.

Administration officials said the decision was necessary to ensure that all funding complies with Trump's executive orders, which are intended to undo progressive steps on transgender rights, environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, efforts. But what will that mean for you?

The tie-up accessing funds puts the short-term future of 3.9 million Illinoisans who rely on the government program into question.

In a statement, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that the freeze would have devastating implications for the “most vulnerable people in our country,” and described the Trump administration’s forceful disregard of Congress’s powers as a “dangerous move towards authoritarianism.”

Advocacy groups for nonprofits, health care and small business fought to block the memo they argued could lead to 'catastrophic' harm cutting funding.

The White House on Tuesday is pausing federal grants and loans as President Donald Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending.