Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is calling for permanent legislative fixes to what she describes as a dangerously flawed electronic monitoring system, warning that the increased use of ankle monitors for violent offenders has created “an unacceptable risk” to public safety.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed three bills Tuesday aimed at strengthening protections for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, while creating new protocols intended to identify high-risk intimate partner violence cases before they turn deadly.
The Chicago Teachers Union is taking aim at the Illinois Policy Institute and the Liberty Justice Center, claiming in a defamation lawsuit filed Monday that social media posts and articles bashing the union’s finances and its president Stacy Davis Gates — and branding the union “toxic” — are part of a “deliberate campaign” to harm the union’s reputation.
Illinois has joined a growing number of states that are expanding fair lending obligations at the state level even as the federal government moves in the opposite direction.
Twenty-two states have gone to court to block the Trump administration from accessing a database containing the personal information of roughly 17 million commercial drivers.