Tuesday, November 3, 2026
The former head of the FBI’s Chicago field office says he lost his job after being wrongly blamed for prosecutions that fell apart against six people who protested the federal immigration crackdown in the city, according to a lawsuit he filed Monday.
Matthew Unglesbee, 36, waived his right to fight prosecutors’ bid to keep him locked up. A jury trial is set to begin Dec. 7.
A federal judge on Monday ordered embattled U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros and several underlings to testify under oath later this month about alleged misconduct in the failed "Broadview Six" case against a group of Operation Midway Blitz protesters.
A federal judge in Illinois on Friday did not dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit accusing McDonald’s McRib of misleading customers about the sandwich’s ingredients.
As the affordability crisis strains household budgets, polling data show nearly one-third of Americans worry about their debt loadalmost every day. In Illinois, nearly one in five residents with credit card debt has balances in collections, according to Illinois Legal Aid Online.