11/24/2025

Incarceration

Detainee Killed in Fire Inside Cook County Jail Cell

WTTW

11/23/2025

Youth

14-year-old killed in downtown shooting during Friday ‘teen takeover’ identified, his death ruled a homicide

Chicago Tribune

11/21/2025

City of Chicago

An out-of-state campaign just entered Chicago’s budget battle

The Triibe

11/21/2025

Courts

Program Allowing CPD Officers to Directly File Felony Gun Charges to Expand Citywide, Top Prosecutor Announces

WTTW

11/21/2025

Incarceration

Illinois prisons are confining the incarcerated to their cells more often than during the pandemic. Can peer education help?

IPM Newsroom

11/21/2025

Pretrial Fairness and Safe-T Act

Pritzker suggests he’s open to tweaking SAFE-T Act after train passenger fire

The Center Square

11/21/2025

Pretrial Fairness and Safe-T Act

Pritzker defends Safe-T Act after CTA burn attack

WBBM News Radio

11/21/2025

Pretrial Fairness and Safe-T Act

Karen Conti: SAFE-T Act, man charged in CTA burning charges

WGN Radio

11/21/2025

Courts

Editorial: A woman was set on fire on the Blue Line. Chicago can’t shrug this off.

Chicago Tribune

11/21/2025

Courts

Man accused in fiery Blue Line gasoline attack was AWOL from home detention, court records show

Chicago Sun-Times

11/20/2025

City of Chicago

Johnson pledges to use head tax for youth programs, then wants to cut funding for proven mentoring efforts

Chicago Sun-Times

11/20/2025

Incarceration

Criminal justice advocates are urging Illinois residents to ‘say no’ to mail scanning in Illinois prisons

The Triibe

11/20/2025

Cook County

Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income

The Triibe

11/20/2025

Community Response

Three-generation West Side family fights to overcome Chicago’s vast life expectancy gap

WBEZ

11/20/2025

State and National Policing

These five cities help explain why homicide rates are down across the U.S.

The Washington Post