Illinois Medicaid insures more than 3 million individuals, but the state’s strategy seems to be: “We’d love to help, but not too much.”

Platkin was among the officials from 18 states, San Francisco and Washington, DC, who filed the case in federal court in Boston. Washington State Attorney General Nicholas Brown led a coalition of four other states, including Illinois, that filed a similar lawsuit in the Seattle federal court.

Illinois joined a list of states filing a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s new executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship.

CHICAGO ( NewsNation) — Migrants in Chicago are growing increasingly anxious as they brace for potential mass deportation raids, which could begin as soon as Tuesday. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders related to immigration, including declaring a national emergency at the border.

A coalition of Democratic attorneys general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts seeking to block President Donald Trump's attempt to revoke the right to automatic birthright citizenship.

The executive order would apply to any children born after the order takes effect, but many are concerned that the Trump administration could take it beyond newborns.

Last year, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul wrote non-home-rule counties in Illinois, which is every country except Cook County, do not have the power to secede. He also held that the state’s Election Code does not contain provisions allowing counties the power to hold binding referendums on whether they can secede from Illinois.

Illinois’ state minimum wage has reached $15 after seven increases since 2020, but not all employees in the Land of Lincoln are legally entitled to the wage. Many residents are likely familiar with the tipped minimum wage,