Volunteer Night

Join the ACLU of Illinois for May Volunteer Night! Volunteer Nights are a great opportunity to meet other civil liberties fans, learn more about the ACLU’s agenda and discover other... Continue reading

Victory for First Amendment Right to Audio Record Police

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois in a case involving Illinois’ controversial eavesdropping law. The ACLU is... Continue reading

Advocacy groups tell State Appellate Court: discrimination laws must apply to all employers, including state government

Chicago – The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, joined by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is asking a state appellate court to reject a claim... Continue reading

SB 1064 – End Privatized Detention

Right now, for-profit prison operators are working on a plan to build a nearly 800-bed detention facility outside Chicago to house federal immigration detainees. The company, Corrections Corporation of America... Continue reading

ACLU Report: Know Your Right to Protest in Chicago

Download the full report as a pdf.(184 kb)Descargue el informe en Español. (PDF) Visit our Protesting-in-Chicago mobile website. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting... Continue reading

House Bill 5290 – Illinois Schools Anti-Bullying Policy

UPDATE 5/1/2012: HB 5290 passed the Senate Education committee 6-4. Bullying and harassment continue to be a problem in Illinois.  More than one third of Illinois students tell experts they... Continue reading

Rally: Women Speakout for Birth Control

Women’s health advocates and religious groups invite you to listen to leaders speak out for women’s access to contraception. 99% of sexually active American women have used some form of... Continue reading

Women are Not Heifers – Or Any Other Form of Livestock

Some members of the Illinois General Assembly once again are playing politics with women’s health — and threatening our access to contraception and abortion! For the second year in a... Continue reading

Tightening Belts Means Loosening Restraints: Illinois to Close Supermax Prison

One of the more positive things to result from deteriorating state budgets across the nation is that some state lawmakers are looking to smart criminal justice reform as a way... Continue reading

Hands Off Women’s Health!

In recent weeks and months we have seen several painful examples of the way in which politics is used to threaten and damage women’s health care – the Komen/Planned Parenthood... Continue reading