January 15, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday halted the Trump administration's renewed effort to tack allegedly unlawful immigration and other policy-related conditions onto certain public safety grants for sanctuary cities, and blocked the government from enforcing the conditions while two cities' legal challenge plays out.
November 13, 2025
The city of Chicago sued the U.S. Department of Justice in Illinois federal court Wednesday, claiming it's imposed unlawful conditions on public safety grants that hold community policing funding hostage to the Trump administration's political agenda and saying it's the latest attempt to punish "sanctuary" jurisdictions.