02/28/2025

Chicago Police

Knife-wielding man shot by Chicago police at Far South Side forest preserve, CPD officials say

ABC 7

02/28/2025

Courts

Rep. Bost announces application process for U.S. Attorney, Marshals

The Southern

02/28/2025

Reentry

Legislation aims to help first-time homebuyers

NPR Illinois

02/28/2025

Youth

Chicago Public Schools is relaunching a program to reel in dropouts

Chalk Beat Chicago

02/27/2025

Public Defense

A shortage of criminal defense attorneys threatens indigent right to counsel in rural Texas

Texas Tribune

02/27/2025

Courts

Jim Dey | Defense, not cops, wrung confession out of murder suspect

The News-Gazette

02/27/2025

State of Illinois

House Gun Violence Prevention Committee considers bill to increase transparency on unsolved homicide cases

The Daily Line

02/27/2025

Incarceration

Cook County’s Conviction Integrity Unit Repeatedly Denied Freedom To Incarcerated People Who Were Later Cleared

Block Club Chicago

02/27/2025

Pretrial Fairness Act/SAFE-T Act

‘We want our state back’: Why DuPage sheriff says he’s running for governor in 2026

Daily Herald

02/27/2025

Pretrial Fairness Act/SAFE-T Act

Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office Launches Body-Worn Camera Program

River Bender

02/27/2025

Community Response

Lives are lost in south suburban Cook County because it’s a trauma center desert

Chicago Sun-Times

02/27/2025

State and National Policing

Trump’s Deleted Police Misconduct Database Was Full of Prison and Border Incidents

The Appeal

02/26/2025

Public Defense

Maine Supreme Court Chief Justice speaks on state’s lack of public defenders

FOX32

02/26/2025

Community Response

Hundreds Pack Logan Square Police Meeting Seeking Answers On Sexual Assault Cases

Block Club Chicago

02/26/2025

Incarceration

‘Left Behind to Die’: Last Men Incarcerated at Stateville Prison Allege Neglect in Lawsuit

WTTW