Monday, May 19, 2025
The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a decades-old practice of taking every cent of people’s home equity over unpaid property taxes. Experts say Illinois lags behind other states with a segregation-era law that mostly affects Black communities.
In the wake of the highly-publicized shooting of a Springfield woman by a police officer, a measure requiring more stringent background checks for police hires has passed both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives threatens an Illinois program that provides scholarships to minority graduate students who agree to stay in the state and work in the education field.
An appeals court ruled against a mother who claimed her three-year prison sentence was “excessive” after her young child was found “severely malnourished” in Harvard and days from death.
The Woodford County State’s Attorney is blaming Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act for allowing the release before trial of a Germantown Hills man on 21 felony counts of possessing child pornography.