Monday, April 8, 2024
Illinois hospitals routinely skirt one of the nation’s strongest laws protecting victims of sexual assault.
In Illinois, any person twice convicted of murder, criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping, or another Class X felony who is subsequently convicted of one of those crimes a third time risks an automatic life sentence under the state’s habitual criminal statute.
A number of municipalities, including Champaign and Urbana, are planning to pool their funds to pay for an attorney to intervene in the Illinois American Water Company’s proposed rate increase.
The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and 16-year prison sentence for a Fox River Grove who sexually assaulted a young child in McHenry County.
Illinois lawmakers are weighing a plan to limit how jails and prisons use solitary confinement.