01/21/2026

Reentry

Housing stock and affordability for Black Chicagoans, 60 years on from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago Freedom Movement

WBEZ

01/21/2026

Gun Violence

Trump Has Slashed Federal Funding for Gun Violence Prevention. But How Much Exactly?

The Trace

01/20/2026

Incarceration

Man makes big leap from University of Illinois college-in-prison program to working towards U of I degree

IPM Newsroom

01/20/2026

Chicago Police

Chicago police officer accused of beating teen faces firing after having criminal case tossed

Chicago Sun-Times

01/19/2026

Community Response

Rockford mayor to host town halls on safety efforts Jan. 21, 29

Rockford Register Star

01/19/2026

Chicago Police

CPD Internal Affairs Complaints Hit Record High in 2025, Fueling Backlog: Data

WTTW

01/16/2026

Incarceration

It’s Hard to Stay Motivated When You’re Facing ‘Death by Incarceration’

The Marshall Project

01/16/2026

Chicago Police

Top cop benches Chicago police officer who racked up the most complaints in recent years

Chicago Sun-Times

01/16/2026

Pretrial Fairness and Safe-T Act

ICE hiring ban bill reignites SAFE-T Act fight at Illinois Capitol

The Center Square

01/16/2026

Reentry

Illinois ‘Clean Slate’ law allows automatic sealing of nonviolent criminal records

Capitol News Illinois

01/16/2026

Reentry

Gov. JB Pritzker signs historic Clean Slate legislation into law

The Triibe

01/16/2026

Courts

No one’s judging Illinois Supreme Court’s latest resign-and-replacement shuffle

Chicago Sun-Times

01/15/2026

Chicago Police

New OIG data portal details misconduct patterns among CPD officers, units

Chicago Tribune

01/15/2026

Chicago Police

Chicago police brass rejected troubled cop’s move to elite unit before he fatally shot partner

Chicago Sun-Times

01/15/2026

Courts

Justice Mary Jane Theis retiring from Illinois high court

The State Journal Register