In less than a month, immigration detention will essentially end in Illinois, and advocates in the Chicago area want U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release detainees who are awaiting their deportation cases rather then transfer them out of state.
A federal court order on Jan. 12 allowed the state to move forward with the Illinois Way Forward Act. In early January, there were 94 people who remained in immigration custody at the McHenry County Jail and the Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee.
