10/24/2025

State and National Policing

Bloomington’s police advisory board admits change may be needed

WGLT

10/24/2025

Incarceration

A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries

The Washington Post

10/23/2025

City of Chicago

Johnson’s 2026 Budget Sets Aside Just $82.5M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits, Even Though Chicago Has Already Spent $90M

WTTW

10/23/2025

Community Response

Her son was killed by a bullet in Chicago. Now, his memory lives on in song

WBEZ

10/23/2025

Federal Officials

Pritzker forms panel to document alleged abuses by feds during Chicago deportation campaign

Chicago Sun-Times

10/23/2025

State and National Policing

An emotional day of testimony in Sean Grayson’s murder trial in Peoria

The State Journal-Register

10/23/2025

State and National Policing

It paid to not get sick. 91% of the city’s police force received a bonus to not call in

Rockford Register Star

10/23/2025

Gun Violence

A Trace Analysis of 150 U.S. Cities Shows One of the Greatest Drops in Gun Violence — Ever

The Trace

10/23/2025

Incarceration

A year after statewide picket, Galesburg prison still plagued by drugs, violence, understaffing

IPM Newsroom

10/22/2025

Youth

Unique home for trafficked teen girls opening soon in Palatine

Daily Herald

10/22/2025

Federal Officials

In ICE’s Expanding Chicago Blitz, Federal Authorities Turn Resistance Into A Crime

Block Club Chicago

10/22/2025

Federal Officials

Immigration enforcement reaches CPS doorstep, renewing questions about student, community safety

Chicago Sun-Times

10/22/2025

Federal Officials

Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, More Than a Dozen County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody

WTTW

10/22/2025

Reentry

Rockford celebrates opening of re-entry home for formerly incarcerated women

My Stateline

10/21/2025

Federal Officials

Denise Lorence: My daughter is the face of Operation Midway Blitz. I am reclaiming her legacy.

Chicago Tribune