The lawsuit cites improved health and economic outcomes for children who participate in the programs, as well as the executive branch’s disregard for congressional directives, which have already allocated the funds.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have reversed course, telling a judge they no longer plan to seek a $3.1 million forfeiture judgment against former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, “as a matter of discretion.”
The attacks on Judge John Barberis in the fall of 2016 appeared on his personal Facebook page. They impugned his ethics, criticized a recent ruling and branded him as a “politician” with the “LOWEST rating for a judge in Illinois.”
The Illinois House is considering legislation which would have the state’s Department of Children and Family Services maintain a human trafficking unit.
Insurance companies are reducing the scope of coverage for some community foster agencies in Illinois, leading to higher costs, diminished coverage and fewer options for agencies who say a continuance of the trend could lead to closures.
In the six years since Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker took office, members of the Illinois General Assembly have run afoul of the law at a staggering pace, even for a body with a history of greed and graft stretching back more than a century.
The first draft of the Chicago Police Department’s future policy regulating traffic stops was unveiled Thursday. And though officers would not be barred from conducting “lawful pretextual traffic stops,” CPD’s draft stressed that those stops “must strike a balance between identifying those engaged in criminal conduct and the community’s sense of fairness.”
While the case of a Downers Grove South High School teacher accused of sexually abusing and assaulting a student has garnered global attention, don’t expect to see photos of her taken inside the courtroom.
