Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned Friday that reforms planned for the Chicago police force could cause a surge in violent crime and pointed to the recent murder conviction of a police officer as evidence that such reforms aren't necessary because officers who break the law are already "prosecuted and jailed."

Champaign Police Sgt. Geoff Coon said he’s waiting on roughly $50,000 in federal grant money that’s due to the central Illinois police department. Another agency that uses the funding to pay for programs that focus on recidivism and re-entry and community-based violence intervention programs in the Rockford area also hasn’t received their funding this year.

Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday. Saturday, Washington, D.C., tried to make sense of the latest developments in the seemingly never-ending Russia saga.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Friday even though he was on the doorstep of retirement and receiving his pension after two decades of service to the bureau.

In this week's Legal Issues in the News, the University of Illinois College Of Law's Sean Anderson explains the immigration lawsuit from the City of Chicago.