04/16/2025

Public Defense

Lawmakers moving forward on public defender reform

NPR Illinois

04/16/2025

Incarceration

Segregation, Restraints and Mace: Lawsuit Alleges Mental Illness Met With Punishment in Illinois Prisons

WTTW

04/16/2025

Community Response

City Club of Chicago: Reducing gun violence – How the community and police are working together

WGN Radio

04/15/2025

Courts

Letters: Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neil Burke’s policy ignores judges’ judgment

Chicago Tribune

04/15/2025

Chicago Police

Police boss credits ‘everybody digging in’ for progress meeting consent decree goals

Chicago Tribune

04/15/2025

City of Chicago

Mayor Johnson now has to consider whether to bring ShotSpotter back to Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times

04/15/2025

State and National Policing

Amid growing criticism from officers, Wheeling police chief put on administrative leave

Daily Herald

04/15/2025

City of Chicago

Mayor Johnson makes the case against downtown curfew on the eve of City Council showdown

Chicago Sun-Times

04/15/2025

Reentry

Simulation event in Freeport highlights challenges of re-entry after incarceration

WIFR

04/15/2025

Courts

Rockford to borrow $13.7M from bond sale to pay off 2 wrongful conviction settlements

Rockford River Current

04/14/2025

Chicago Police

Chicago Set to Exhaust Annual Budget for Police Misconduct Settlements

WTTW

04/14/2025

Community Response

Chicago working-class communities see opportunity in alternative wealth-building models

Crain's Chicago Business

04/14/2025

Chicago Police

Chicago Set to Exhaust Annual Budget for Police Misconduct Settlements

WTTW

04/14/2025

Community Response

Chicago working-class communities see opportunity in alternative wealth-building models

Crain's Chicago Business

04/14/2025

State and National Policing

Trump’s DOJ Has Frozen Police Reform Work. Advocates Fear More Abuse in Departments Across the Country.

ProPublica