12/30/2024

Community Response

The Number of Murders Kept Falling This Year, but Fear of Crime Persists

The New York Times

12/30/2024

Chicago Police

Chicago homicides in 2024: 573 people slain. Here’s how that compares with previous years.

Chicago Tribune

12/30/2024

Incarceration

Some Illinois ‘offenders’ renamed ‘justice-impacted individuals’

The Center Square

12/30/2024

Courts

U.S. Attorney for central Illinois resigns

NPR Illinois

12/30/2024

State and National Policing

Ex-deputy charged in fatal Sonya Massey shooting has court date rescheduled

The State Journal-Register

12/30/2024

Incarceration

Hochul Installs New Leader at Prison Where Inmate Was Fatally Beaten

The New York Times

12/29/2024

Chicago Police

Downward trend in homicides continues in Chicago, but officials aren’t celebrating

Chicago Tribune

12/28/2024

Reentry

Discrimination based on source of income still widespread despite new Illinois law, housing advocates say; recent lawsuits may change that

Chicago Tribune

12/28/2024

Incarceration

Inmates Are Learning to Code in Prison. Jobs May be Hard to Come by

WTTW

12/27/2024

State of Illinois

Audit finds overtime, staffing issues at Illinois Department of Human Services

Chicago Tribune

12/27/2024

State and National Police

State troopers target metro-east ‘violent crime’ areas, arrest 24

Belleville News Democrat

12/27/2024

Chicago Police

Judge Won’t Allow Chicagoans Who Sued CPD for Targeting Black, Latino Drivers to Intervene in Consent Decree Court Case

WTTW

12/27/2024

Pretrial Fairness Act/SAFE-T Act

As sheriff pushes to end electronic monitoring, some critical of no-cash bail

The Center Square

12/27/2024

Reentry

US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people

Daily Herald

12/27/2024

Reentry

U.S. homelessness jumps to another record high, amid affordable housing shortage

WGLT