Wednesday, July 16, 2025
CPD made 45% fewer traffic stops in 2024, but Black and Latino drivers were four times more likely than white drivers to be pulled over.
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan asked a judge Monday to let him stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction that led to a 7 ½-year prison sentence he’s due to begin serving in three months.
Regulatory attempts have failed despite Pritzker’s backing, although feds could intervene.
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners had previously argued that the state’s election code barred its employees from forming a union. But the law shouldn’t be read that way, administrative law Judge Anna Hamburg-Gal found in an order Monday that paves the way for official recognition of the union.
A woman got into an argument with her girlfriend, killed her and staged her death as a suicide, Illinois prosecutors said.