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| Good afternoon, Chicago. Starting tomorrow, Illinois residents will be able to use their iPhones to show their driver’s license at select airports, restaurants and bars. Under a major digital shift that Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias cast today as a long-promised modernization of government services, Illinois residents will be able to add their state driver’s license or state ID to their Apple Wallets. Mobile IDs will expand to Android users within the next few months or sometime next year, he said. Here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History
news  Megan Siegel wears a flag cape while holding the hand of her daughter, Matilda, while protesting outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility
in Broadview, Nov. 14, 2025. The Siegel family lives in Shabbona, near DeKalb. Siegel said she has been protesting outside the Broadview facility up to five times per week. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) Sharp drop in detainees at ICE facility in Broadview follows temporary restraining orderThe number of detainees held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview has dropped precipitously since a federal judge ordered the government to comply with requirements to improve conditions at the facility, with only four people held there as of this morning.
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business  Construction continues on Nov. 17, 2025, as the Austin HOPE Center on West Chicago Avenue reaches its top height. The center,
built with the Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital, will be the first permanent, stand-alone pediatric specialty and behavioral health facility on Chicago’s West Side. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) A $22 million pediatric health care facility taking shape in Austin neighborhood will address unmet needsAustin community residents, civic leaders and developers celebrated yesterday at a beam-raising event for the Austin HOPE Center, a $22 million development that will provide pediatric health care services hard to find on the Chicago’s West Side.
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sports  Illinois’ David Mirković saves a ball from going out of bounds against Colgate’s Cooper Wright (23) during the second half, Nov. 14, 2025, in Champaign. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty) Chicago basketball report: Bulls add to their Ring of Honor — and an Illinois freshman is ‘wired different’The Bulls are looking forward to celebrating their second Ring of Honor class, while an Illinois freshman is grabbing the spotlight in the first two weeks of the men’s college basketball season.
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eat. watch. do.  Patti Smith performs at the Chicago Theatre on Nov. 17, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) Review: Patti Smith’s ‘Horses,’ live and powerful at 50At the Chicago Theatre, Patti Smith and her band tore into “Horses” from top to bottom, and 50 years on, it’s still alternately vivid and elliptical.
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nation & world  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., center, is joined from left by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., Speaker of the House
Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., to talk to reporters about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) House votes overwhelmingly to force release of Epstein files, sending bill to SenateThe House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill today to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remarkable display of approval for an effort that had struggled for months to overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.
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