Russ Feingold and Law Forward filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit against campaign finance rules initially brought by then-Sen. J.D. Vance.

President Donald Trump is taking command of 300 Illinois National Guard troops and sending them to Chicago over Gov. JB ...

Trump had threatened to withhold grants to help crime victims from states that didn't cooperate in immigration enforcement.

Appeals Court Judge Lisa Neubauer, a former Supreme Court candidate, announced Monday she's retiring at the end of her term ...

CHICAGO — Illinois and Chicago filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block the Trump administration’s planned deployment of National Guard troops to the state — a move Gov. JB Pritzker called an “invasion ...

A Waukesha County judge ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission to stop accepting voter registrations without verifying citizenship ...

Brenden joined CNI in Octrober, 2025 as a Statehouse reporter. Brenden is a 2017 graduate of DePaul University, where he ...

Ben joined CNI in November 2024 as a Statehouse reporter covering the General Assembly from Springfield and other events ...

Reporter, Votebeat Wisconsin Alexander Shur previously covered politics, policy, and the fallout of the 2020 presidential election for the Wisconsin State Journal. Prior to that he covered the ...

Hannah has been covering Illinois government and politics since 2014, and since then has worked for a variety of outlets from ...

A civics nerd from childhood, Andrew joined CNI in February 2023 and brings a unique blend of data-driven and traditional reporting to our newsroom. He loves numbers, statistics and visual reporting – ...

ICE raids in Madison and Manitowoc mark and escalation in Wisconsin immigrant rights advocates are struggling to combat ...