WAND News spoke with Rep. Brandun Schweizer (R-Danville) and Democrat Jarrett Clem this week to learn about their goals for constituents.

Federal spending on migrants has increased by 45 percent since 2017, topping $150bn according to a watchdog group.

New York has issued 4,507 one-way tickets to Texas through a voluntary program that transfers asylum seekers out of the city, ...

In Beirut, alumnus Michael Petro S.J. is helping to house displaced refugees who have fled their homes in southern Lebanon.

Only just over half of the 118 House seats are contested this year in Illinois’ state legislative districts. That level of gerrymandering isn’t healthy for democracy and leads to a General Assembly ...

The city of Chicago will overhaul its migrant response strategy, including by closing its “landing zone” and migrant-only ...

Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday for the burial of Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in ...

Twenty-six people remain unaccounted for in hard-hit North Carolina, weeks after the devastation unleashed by Hurricane ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson cast the shift to a unified shelter system as a victory for fiscal prudence, coordination of resources ...

However, the city announced on Tuesday that Chicago's migrant shelters will be shut down entirely by the end of the year and integrated into the city's existing system for homeles ...

Taking over most of the museum while it rethinks its permanent installations, a new exhibition foregrounds the settlement’s ...

Politically, there are three reasons why Trump is right to double down on the immigration issue as he campaigns against Vice President Kamala Harris.