A city of Chicago employee has been accused of sending a pair of threatening emails to a northwest Illinois state lawmaker and told a police investigator that he had been “angry a lot lately, ...

A 59-year-old city of Chicago employee has been accused of threatening a state senator. Joseph Haggerty was arrested Tuesday and charged with threatening a public official, Illinois State Police said.

FREEPORT, Ill. — Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified State Sen. Andrew Chesney as the person arrested. The article has been updated to clarify that Joseph Haggerty ...

Editor’s note: The Illinois State Police originally reported the suspect was from Freeport, Illinois, but later corrected their reporting to say the suspect is from Chicago. This story has been ...

Illinois State Sen. Andrew Chesney proposed deporting all undocumented immigrants to solve the housing crisis. Chesney argued that deportation would free up housing units, thereby increasing supply ...