03/07/2025

Reentry

Project NOW: Temporary overnight shelter a chance to ‘discover new approaches’

Quad-City Times

03/06/2025

State of Illinois

House Gun Violence Prevention Committee passed bill to require firearm tracing in criminal investigations

The Daily Line

03/06/2025

Incarceration

‘Orange Crush’ Officers Sexually Humiliated, Abused Men in Illinois Prisons, Lawsuit Says

The Appeal

03/06/2025

State and National Policing

Illinois State Police releases video from Feb. 6 McLean County officer-involved shooting

Central Illinois Proud

03/06/2025

Gun Violence

‘Notorious’ firearm store linked to illegal weapons closes

Chicago Tribune

03/06/2025

Chicago Police

Pay Activist Miracle Boyd, Struck by Cop at 2020 Grant Park Protest, $280K, City Lawyers Recommend

WTTW

03/06/2025

Chicago Police

City Poised to Pay Another $2.5M to Families of Chicagoans Killed by Driver Being Chased by Police

WTTW

03/06/2025

Pretrial Fairness and Safe-T Act

Local police making record arrests despite SAFE-T Act challenges

Swinford Media

03/05/2025

Incarceration

Illinois man represented by Springfield-based project has murder conviction vacated

The State Journal Register

03/05/2025

City of Chicago

Effort to house Gompers Park homeless moving forward, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration says

Chicago Tribune

03/05/2025

Incarceration

Reputed Mexican cartel figure pleads not guilty in Chicago, part of unprecedented prisoner transfer

Chicago Tribune

03/04/2025

Gun Violence

Illinois Law Acknowledges Gun Possession Doesn’t Mean Pulling the Trigger

BlockClub Chicago

03/04/2025

Courts

Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Mexico’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Makers

The New York Times

03/04/2025

Courts

Exonerated after 24 years in prison, man sues Evanston police, saying they coerced murder confession

Chicago Tribune

03/04/2025

Public Defense

Marion County judge warns she may start forcing public defenders to take more cases

Oregon Public Radio