Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Chicago Police Department officials agreed to revise proposed new rules and prohibit officers from searching vehicles based on the smell of raw cannabis, a coalition of reform groups told the federal judge overseeing efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department.
A 60-year-old man who has been held in the Cook County Jail for nearly three years despite facing no criminal charges will need to remain there, a state appeals court has ruled, because he can't prove to the courts that he doesn't actually have $10 million to pay his ex-wife, as a Cook County judge ordered him to do.
As Tuesday marks the three-year anniversary of the decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case that overturned a nearly 50-year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade, abortion clinics in Illinois remain concerned over funding.
A duck hunting club in Williamson County was ordered to shut down for two years after the owner pleaded guilty to illegal baiting, according to the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney's Office Southern District of Illinois.
For many Americans, the idea of watching fireworks displays on the Fourth of July, and maybe even shooting off their own, has become synonymous with the holiday that celebrates the nation's independence.