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- Appeal in Terkel v AT&T Wednesday
- Demanding Accountability from the Phone Company
- Governor issues amendatory veto on surveillance camera data collection
- Is the Debt Ceiling a Civil Liberties Issue?
- From Pranks to Prison
- Excuse Me, Ma'am, This Isn’t Your ID
- Suspicionless Drug Testing Victories
- El Cuarto Ano High School Students Make Their Voices Heard
- ACLU opposes suspicionless drug testing of public housing residents
- Children’s well-being not put first
- Homeland Security Investigates Questioning of Muslims at the Border
- New Regulation Proposes Government-Funding of Religion
- Now is the Time for Reform — Not Authorizing More Abusive Government Surveillance!
- FBI: If We Told You, You Might Sue
- Yes, You’re Being Tracked. It’s Time to Do Something About It
- When Is Enough Enough? Government Surveillance Skyrockets in 2010.
- Cop Breaks a Kid's Arm and Tasers Him. His Offense? Saggy Pants.
- House Gets Ready to Vote on Radical Anti-Abortion Bill
- Day Two of the ACLU's Fact-Finding Mission to Puerto Rico
- If You Get Raped, You Better Keep a Receipt
- Labor Department Delivers for Trans Federal Employees
- Honoring Courage Seven Years After Abu Ghraib
- Legislative Director Mary Dixon is Awesome
- Gettin' Things Done in Springfield
- Appeal Filed in ACLU v. Alvarez
- Measure to Limit Abortion Access Defeated in Illinois House
- Illinois Pharmacists Can Refuse Emergency Contraception, Judge Rules
- Update to Privacy Policy
- Lobby Day for Medically Accurate Sexual Health Education a Rousing Success
- House Agriculture Committee AGAIN Legislating on Women's Reproductive Health
- Oppose DNA collection upon arrest
- Statement on Reinstatement of the Death Penalty in Illinois
- Familial DNA Testing Raises Privacy and Civil Rights Concerns
- Women are not Livestock Rally a Success, Fight moves to House Floor
- DHS Concludes They Have Authority to Monitor Political Activities of Advocacy Groups
- International Women's Day
- Oppose Discrimination - NO on SB 1993
- Teaching Students What They Need to Learn
- Colleen Connell on 848!
- Not Again!
- Don't Filter Us!
- The attack on women’s health comes to Illinois
- Religious Beliefs Should Not Dictate Insurance Coverage For Reproductive Health Care
- Some Welcome News For Women's Rights
- ACLU’s Ben Wolf to be honored as “citizen of the year”
- Petition calls for halt to Chicago's surveillance camera system
- ACLU of Illinois tells appellate court that juvenile detention center still needs change
- Juvenile Detention Center case goes to appellate court
- Welcome Home, Civil Libertarians
- Standing up for the First Amendment in Chicago
- ACLU of Illinois, medical groups ask court to protect vulnerable teens from "unfortunate" legislation
- Act Now! Push Death Penalty Repeal in Illinois Past the Finish Line
- Download the Brief
- Finally... Illinois Death Penalty Repeal Awaits Gov. Quinn's Signature
- Breaking: Victory! Illinois Senate Votes to End the Death Penalty
- A "Near-Death Experience" for Death Penalty Abolition in Illinois
- What You Should Know About Illinois' (Soon-to-Be) New Civil Union Law
- ACLU of Illinois weighs in on Ten Commandments controversy
- The Road Behind, the Road Ahead for LGBT Equality in Illinois
- Civil Unions Bill Passes Illinois House and Senate in Historic Moment for Fairness
- Big Moves in Springfield
- ACLU amends challenge to eavesdropping law
- Airport Body Scanners: 'Stupid and Punitive,' the ACLU's Colleen Connell discovers
- ACLU of Illinois honored by Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame as 'Friend of the Community'
- End Illinois' Broken Death Penalty
- Wanted: Illinois High Schools Seeking to Expand First Amendment Efforts
- It's Time for the Student Non-Discrimination Act!
- An Unconstitutional Recall
- It Gets Better... and We're Here to Help
- New brief filed in ACLU v. Alvarez
- ACLU of Illinois opposes Ten Commandments display on public property
- Collecting DNA at Arrest: A Bad Idea Justified by a Bad Prosecution
- The Choices No One Wants
- A Post-College Road Trip Leads to a Career Protecting Women's Rights
- Our Bags are Packed!
- Award winning journalist joins ACLU of Illinois staff
- Road Trip for Reproductive Health and Access, coming to a city near you!
- 1/3 of US women have abortions - 87% of US counties have no provider
- ACLU of Illinois gets a "shout out" on free speech from Governor Quinn
- A Step Forward for People with Mental Illness
- Associate Legal Director Ben Wolf honored by The Youth Campus
- Video Surveillance in Chicago
- Anti-bullying Bill Passes the House 108-0!
- Google launches government transparency tool
- Take action: Stop extremist takeover of textbooks
- Constance will lead New York pride parade
- Arkansas adoption victory!
- Obama calls for hospital visitation equality
- Texas rewrites history
- April 16- student tips for Day of Silence
- Republican supports death penalty abolition
- Civil liberty advocates urge Obama to fill board seat
- Anti-School-Bullying bill success
- Surveillance Cameras
- Executive Director Colleen K. Connell Remembers Burt Joseph
- Gene patent victory
- Petty
- Taxes used for religious education: Stop Senate Bill 2494!
- Illinois Teens: Can't Win for Losing
- ACLU will fight parental notification ruling
- A message for LGBT youth and Allies in Illinois
- The fight for reproductive freedom is a marathon, not a sprint
- Stricter standards for military discharge under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
- Another case of LGBT discrimination at Itawamba High School
- ACLU questions legality of drone attacks
- Mississippi prom ruling: School violated student's First Amendment rights
- Historic agreement will bring change to Illinois nursing homes
- Ben Wolf speaks on WBEZ's "848" about IMD settlement
- ACLU of Illinois fights against abortion-notice law in court
- "The Onion" chimes in about Mississippi same-sex prom debate
- Constance McMillen thanks supporters
- ACLU sues Mississippi school on behalf of lesbian student
- Rally together against the death penalty!
- First same-sex marriages performed in D.C.
- ACLU calls on Obama in full-page New York Times ad
- ACLU of Illinois Stands up for the Right to sit down
- US military spied on Planned Parenthood
- Chicago to be part of first anti-gay housing discrimination study
- Congress reauthorizes Patriot Act provisions
- Abolish the Death Penalty
- Full-body scanners at O'hare: Invasion of privacy
- Schools vs. social networking: Oak Forest student suspended for Facebook fan page
- ACLU calls for criminal investigation of the torture program
- College students: Studying on an airplane may lead to interrogation
- Congratulations Shani Davis!
- Covert cameras coming to Chicago
- Google and NSA- A frightening partnership
- Celebrate Black History Month with the ACLU of Illinois
- Legal update: ACLU goes before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Sherman v. Township High School District 214
- Parental notification laws detrimental for young women
- Happy National Freedom Day!
- Local artist fights for First Amendment rights after audio recording his arrest
- Support the Reproductive Health and Access Act!
- Protect Reproductive Health and Access in Illinois
- What to do when stopped by the police
- ACLU issues civil liberties report after Obama administration's first year in office
- FBI violated civil liberties with illegal obtainment of phone records
- Gov. Quinn's task force proposes reform in Illinois nursing homes
- Going Digital: The ACLU of Illinois' Winter 2010 Newsletter
- Gay marriage trial begins
- A new report finds sex abuse high at 13 juvenile facilities
- Federal investigation underway at Somerset Place
- New Hampshire kicks off the New Year with gay marriage
- Civil Liberties Quick Hits
- Check out ACLU national's new indefinite detention site!
- Obama calls for the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
- Civil liberties successes of the decade
- Body scanners coming to O'Hare
- Update in the *ACLU v. White* lawsuit regarding excessive lobby fees
- Happy Holidays
- D.C. Council approves same-sex marriage bill
- 'Tis the season to celebrate the First Amendment
- Obama Administration Announces Plans to Move Guantanamo Detainees to Illinois Prison
- Your Facebook page may not be as private as you think
- Dignity in Schools
- The People Speak
- Supporting the ACLU
- Nelson-Hatch amendment killed in the Senate
- New Jersey to vote on gay marriage Thursday
- Hello ACLU Insider Readers
- CPS admission policy may shut out African-American and Latino students from the city's highest-performing schools
- Gay marriage one step closer in D.C.
- Stupak Amendment damaging to women's reproductive freedom and health care
- ACLU of Illinois Signs on to National Resolution Calling for Ending School Pushout
- Cameras Everywhere
- Two chances to meet ACLU Client Diane Schroer
- The Establishment of Religion
- Breaking News: ACLU wins temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the Parental Notice of Abortion Act
- The Problem With Parental Notice
- Why We Are Fighting For Civil Unions
- Happy Constitution Day!
- Anti-Profiling Measure Extended in Illinois
- ACLU Launches Illinois Bypass Coordination Project
- Illinois must act on racial profiling
- A Matter of No Middle Ground
- Why I Wanted to Intern at the ACLU this Summer
- Ask Governor Quinn to help end racial profiling
- Bad Court Decision Puts Teens At Risk
- There is no place like home
- Upcoming Townhall on the Death Penalty
- A Moving Day
- 2009 LGBT Pride Parade
- Join us at the LGBT Pride Parade
- Still Fighting for Fairness and Civil Unions
- Take Action Today: Support Civil Unions in Illinois
- End the Unauthorized Sterilization of Adults with Disabilities under Guardianship - SUPPORT HB 2290
- In Memory of Judith Krug, First Amendment Champion
- Chicago Sun-Times Endorses HB 2354!
- Support Rescission of the Health Care Denial Rule
- Working to make schools safe for all students
- A Great Take on Civil Unions in Illinois
- Free Speech Doesn't Mean No One Will Disagree With You
- ACLU of Illinois Joins National Effort to Fund Honest Sexual Health Education
- ACLU of Illinois Joins National Effort to Fund Honest Sexual Health Education
- Our Juvenile Justice Work
- Baby Steps: Obama Asks for 120 Day Halt to Guantanamo Proceedings
- Teen Health and Abstinence-Only Education
- Supreme Court Ruling in Morr-Fitz v. Blagojevich
- Why can't everyone be as happy as I was on Saturday?
- Federal Appeals Court Overrules Portions of the Patriot Act
- Federal Judge Orders 5 Guantanamo Detainees Released
- Crazy Radical Ideas from the incoming administration
- Election Day for Constitution Voters
- Making Calls for No on Proposition 8
- Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
- 2009 Board of Directors
- Good News for the Right to Vote
- Questions I'd Like to Ask at the Next Presidential Debate
- Constitutional Tots
- Civil Liberties Video Contest
- Good news for Reproductive Health Care from Illinois!
- ACLU Calls for Investigation of Police Conduct Around RNC
- Telco Lawsuit Co-Counsel: These Lawsuits Aren't Dead
- New York Times: The Wiretap This Time
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- Volunteer Night
- The War on Contraception - Schaumburg
- The War on Contraception – Chicago Heights
- The War on Contraception – Bolingbrook
- Loyola School of Communication Hosts: “Shattered Lens: A Citizen’s Right to Film”
- Volunteer Night
- National Day of Action to Close Guantanamo
- Volunteer Night in Wheaton
- DuPage Volunteer Night
- Smart Phones & Dumb Laws: Will your Cellphone Make you a Criminal?
- Volunteer Night
- ACLU Discussions: Foster kids have the right to a safe, loving home
- Susan Herman on Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of Democracy.
- 2011 Bill of Rights Celebration
- Volunteer Night
- Southern Illinois ACLU Chapter Annual Membership Meeting
- Volunteer Night
- 2011 Disability Pride Parade
- Volunteer Night
- Internet Privacy Panel: How & Why It's Good for Business
- 2011 Chicago LGBT Pride Parade
- Custer's Last Stand Festival of the Arts
- Volunteer Night
- Understanding Human Rights: A Seminar
- Volunteer Night
- Peoria Chapter 50th Anniversary Celebration
- The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today
- Volunteer Night
- Ed Yohnka at Laughing Liberally
- Board President Jill Metz Discusses Civil Unions at the Chicago Federal Reserve
- Campaign for Reproductive Health and Access Lobby Day
- The Cows Come Home: Women Are Not Livestock - Rally for Choice II
- Volunteer Night
- Volunteer Night
- Volunteer Night
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- Slate: Recording Police Making Arrests & the Outrageous Law that Makes it a Felony
- The Legislative Session Begins with Eavesdropping
- Victory for Children
- Statement on Development in Catholic Charities Case Against DCFS
- CANA v. City of Chicago
- Mattoon couple challenge denial of services at two Illinois Bed and Breakfast facilities
- Protesting? Know your rights!
- Governor issues amendatory veto on surveillance camera data collection
- 2011 Disability Pride Parade
- 2011 Chicago LGBT Pride Parade
- Statement on Court Ruling in Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Challenge
- Camera Bill Passes Illinois House
- Defending Vulnerable Teens
- Tell the Senate: Keep Your Mitts Off the Civil Union Act
- Proviso East student successfully challenges policy prohibiting young women from wearing tuxedos to prom
- Lobby Day for Medically Accurate Sexual Health Education a Rousing Success
- Illinois Governor signs historic measure ending broken death penalty system
- Illinois House takes up radical anti-abortion agenda items this week
- Juvenile Detention Center case goes to appellate court
- Welcome Home, Civil Libertarians
- Chicago's Video Surveillance Camera System: Growing and Unregulated
- Standing up for the First Amendment in Chicago
- Act Now! Push Death Penalty Repeal in Illinois Past the Finish Line
- Breaking: Victory! Illinois Senate Votes to End the Death Penalty
- Landmark Agreement Will Expand Community Living Opportunities for People with Developmental Disabilities in Illinois
- Breaking: House votes to end Illinois' broken death penalty system
- ACLU v. ISP
- ACLU of Illinois weighs in on Ten Commandments controversy
- Victory! Civil Union Bill Passes the Illinois House & Senate
- ACLU of Illinois honored by Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame as 'Friend of the Community'
- It Gets Better... and We're Here to Help
- Making the Moratorium Permanent this November
- ACLU seeks privacy records from secretive state police "fusion center"
- ACLU seeks end to prosecutions for recording public conversations with police
- Hope Clinic v. Adams
- Anti-Profiling Measure Extended in Illinois
- Bad Court Decision Puts Teens At Risk
- Good News for the Right to Vote
- In The Courts
- CANA v. City of Chicago
- Catholic Charities v. DCFS
- Grey v. Arnold
- Jimmy Doe v. Cook County
- Colbert v. Quinn
- Ligas v. Maram
- Fields v. Raemisch
- Kirk v. Arnold
- City of Chicago v. St. John's Evangelical Church
- Sherman v. Koch
- B.H. v. McEwen
- Khorammi v. Rolince
- Terkel v. AT&T
- Cummins v. Illinois
- Morr-Fitz v. Blagojevich
- ACLU v. ISP
- ACLU v. White
- ACLU v. Alvarez
- Williams v. Quinn
- Miller v. AIG
- Hope Clinic v. Adams
- In The Legislature
- The Legislative Session Begins with Eavesdropping
- VETO SESSION - Week 2
- Spoiler alert: They are lying
- VETO SESSION - Week 1
- Testimony before the Illinois Senate Criminal Law Committee Hearing on Wrongful Convictions
- Governor issues amendatory veto on surveillance camera data collection
- Senate Bill 1123: Discrimination by religiously affiliated adoption agencies
- Gettin' Things Done in Springfield
- Camera Bill Passes Illinois House
- Measure to Limit Abortion Access Defeated in Illinois House
- Tell the Senate: Keep Your Mitts Off the Civil Union Act
- Lobby Day for Medically Accurate Sexual Health Education a Rousing Success
- House Agriculture Committee AGAIN Legislating on Women's Reproductive Health
- Oppose DNA collection upon arrest
- Death Penalty Reinstatement Bills: Status Update
- HB 1948 - Surveillance Camera Data Collection: Status Update
- SB 1619 - Illinois Personal Responsibility Education Program: Status Update
- Statement on Reinstatement of the Death Penalty in Illinois
- HB 3156 would impose "unconstitutional burdens on the fundamental right to terminate pregnancy"
- Women are not Livestock Rally a Success, Fight moves to House Floor
- Bills We Oppose: Forced DNA Collection Upon Arrest II
- Illinois House takes up radical anti-abortion agenda items this week
- Oppose Discrimination - NO on SB 1993
- Teaching Students What They Need to Learn
- Colleen Connell on 848!
- Not Again!
- The attack on women’s health comes to Illinois
- Bills We Oppose: Forced DNA Collection Upon Arrest
- Bills We Support: HB 1948 - Surveillance Camera Data Collection
- Bills We Oppose: HB 1371 - School Choice Act
- Act Now! Push Death Penalty Repeal in Illinois Past the Finish Line
- Breaking: Victory! Illinois Senate Votes to End the Death Penalty
- A "Near-Death Experience" for Death Penalty Abolition in Illinois
- Breaking: House votes to end Illinois' broken death penalty system
- The Road Behind, the Road Ahead for LGBT Equality in Illinois
- Victory! Civil Union Bill Passes the Illinois House & Senate
- Big Moves in Springfield
- Making the Moratorium Permanent this November
- Veto Session
- Medically Accurate Sexual Health Education for Illinois Youth
- School Code Amended to Prevent Bullying
- Human Rights Legislation to Protect Students
- Traffic Stop Data Collection
- A Breakthrough for People Living With STDs
- End the Unauthorized Sterilization of Adults with Disabilities under Guardianship - SUPPORT HB 2290
- Chicago Sun-Times Endorses HB 2354!
- Biometric Privacy Rights
- Genetic Information Privacy Act
- HIV Counseling for Pregnant Women
- "Public Accommodation" Redefined
- Juvenile Sex Offenders Offered a Chance
- Student-run Papers Designated Public Forums
- Citizen Participation Act
- Say No to Gender Discrimination
- Anonymous HIV Testing
- Repeal the Real ID Act
- Amendments Made to the Traffic Stop Data Collection Law
- Sexual Identity Not a Basis for Discrimination
- Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003
- 2003 Traffic Stop Data Collection Law
- Newsroom
- New York Times: Psychiatric Patients With No Place to Go but Jail
- Chicago Tribune: Harvey Grossman's Letter to the Editor
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Abortion shares agenda with livestock in Illinois committee
- Women (still) are not livestock
- Chicago Tribune: Colleen Connell's Letter to the Editor
- WTTW: Contraceptive Coverage & The Catholic Church
- State Journal-Register: State’s eavesdrop law should be changed
- Northwest Herald: Contraceptive coverage irks local Catholics
- Chicago Sun-Times: Timuel Black a historian — and part of civil rights history
- Slate: Recording Police Making Arrests & the Outrageous Law that Makes it a Felony
- Chicago Sun-Times: McCarthy Says It’s good to record officers
- ACLU of Illinois continues opposition to amended ordinances on demonstration rules, urges City Council to expand oversight of surveillance cameras
- Hiram Paley: A life well lived
- The News Gazette: Hiram Paley was a leading progressive for Urbana
- State Journal-Register: Civil union benefits approved for Springfield workers
- Chicago Sun-Times: Longest-serving Illinois ACLU director dies
- Chicago Tribune: Jay A. Miller, 1928-2012
- The ACLU of Illinois remembers Jay Miller
- Chicago Tribune: Parade ordinance power grab
- Chicago Tribune: State's eavesdropping law faces growing challenges
- Recent Developments in Warrantless Monitoring Case
- ACLU of Illinois condemns effort by City of Springfield to deny benefits to couples in civil unions
- New York Times: For Bishops, a Battle Over Whose Rights Prevail
- WTTW: G8 Summit
- Landmark Consent Decree Expands Opportunities for Nursing Home Residents with Disabilities
- WTTW: Eavesdropping Law
- Chicago Tribune: New goal for juvenile center: Clear it out
- Fox Chicago News: Fraternal Order of Police Wants to Fight ACLU on Police Designation Lawsuit
- Chicago Sun-Times: Illinois Supreme Court to consider abortion dispute
- Thanks to citizens with cameras
- New York Times: Surveillance Cameras Increasing Under Rahm Emanuel
- Statement on Development in Catholic Charities Case Against DCFS
- Chicago Tribune: 3 dioceses drop foster care lawsuit
- Huffington Post: Giving Thanks and Taking Action
- New York Times: Knowing Where the Police Are Posted
- Trib Local: Lake Zurich High School drops drug testing proposal after survey of parents finds overwhelming opposition
- Windy City Times: Gay couple files complaints over bed-and-breakfasts
- Mattoon couple challenge denial of services at two Illinois Bed and Breakfast facilities
- Chicago Sun-Times: Cops not distributed equitably across city, ACLU says in lawsuit
- Chicago News Cooperative: Emanuel May Put More Cops in High-Crime Areas
- Chicago Tribune: ACLU sues Chicago police over deployment
- BET: Chicago Group Sick of Saggy Pants, Wants Ban
- Chicago Tribune: Settlement reached in Muslim's suit over denial of time off for hajj
- OregonLive.com: Ron Wyden locks arms with unusual coalition to update electronic privacy protections
- Chicago Sun-Times: City must share data on police deployment
- Chicago Tribune: Opposite-sex couple in civil union assail NU's health insurance rules
- Windy City Times: Panel addresses high rates of HIV in African-Americans
- New York Times: Video, a New Tool for the Police, Poses New Legal Issues, Too
- Chicago Tribune: Proposal to test Lake Zurich High athletes for drugs divides parents
- Chicago Tribune: Emanuel wants city workers to be big losers
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: Partnerships lead to freedom for disabled citizens
- PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly: Catholic Charities and Gay Adoption
- Chicago Tribune: Moving to community care
- WGN-TV: Aurora to charge fee for arrests
- New York Times: Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I.’s Watch List
- Chicago Tribune: UIC report slams Hartgrove psychiatric hospital
- State Journal-Register: Judge denies Catholic Charities' request for reconsideration
- Chicago Tribune: Henry T. Chandler Jr., 1954-2011
- Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Give military women equal abortion rights
- Daily Illini: Privacy should not be expected by police
- ACLU of Illinois celebrates civil unions and end of the death penalty at dinner featuring former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
- Campus Progress: Survey Shows Need for Better Teen Sex Ed
- Ed Yohnka on WGN Radio
- Huffington Post: Illinois Eavesdropping Law Supported By Influential Circuit Judge
- NBC Chicago: ACLU Takes Eavesdropping Challenge to Appeals Court
- ABC 7: ACLU challenges Ill. Eavesdropping Act in court
- ACLU asks appeals court to prevent future prosecutions for recording public conversations with police
- WBBM Radio: Colleen Connell on "At Issue" 9/11 episode
- State Journal-Register: Government agencies have upgraded security since 9/11
- Chicago Tribune: Open up, in the name of the law
- Think Progress: Presidential Candidates weigh in on Catholic Charities
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: Bennett's life pushes her to advocacy
- Associated Press: US appeals court considers wiretapping lawsuits
- ABC Channel 7 News: 9/11 Commission Airlines key weakness to U.S. security
- Nursing Home Residents with Disabilities Celebrate Proposed Agreement with State in Landmark Lawsuit
- Chicago Tribune: Settlement eases reliance on nursing homes to house adults with disabilities
- Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Protect the public’s right to eavesdrop
- Chicago Tribune: Woman who recorded cops acquitted of felony eavesdropping charges
- Chicago Tribune: From Lynwood to Florida, saggy pants under assault
- Chicago Sun-Times: Let’s be patriots and oppose Patriot Act
- State Journal-Register: Judge hears arguments in state foster care lawsuit
- Windy City Times: Fate of Catholic charities still uncertain
- Chicago Tribune: Judge hears arguments in Catholic Charities case
- Chicago Tribune: Slope not that slippery in case of San Francisco cellphone shutdown
- WILL-AM 580: State Rep. Jakobsson Questions Veto of Security Camera Bill
- Chicago Tribune: Illinois panel on race and drivers stuck in neutral
- CBS Chicago: ACLU Intervenes in Catholic Charities Adoption Rights Case
- WBEZ: Despite privacy concerns, random drug tests for Illinois student athletes will continue
- Chicago Tribune: Wisconsin allows hormone therapy for transgender inmates
- Chicago Tribune: ACLU joins suit against Catholic Charities
- WGN-TV: Lauren Grey talks transgender birth certificate lawsuit
- Chicago Tribune: Three transgender plaintiffs in class-action suit to get birth certificates changed
- Huffington Post: Judge Orders Illinois To Issue New Birth Certificates To Transgender Litigants
- Advocate: Ill. to Issue New Birth Certificates to Litigants
- FOX Chicago News: Minority Drivers More Likely to be Searched than White Drivers
- Chicago Sun-Times: Minorities more likely to get tickets, have vehicles searched
- WBEZ: Study shows race a factor in Illinois traffic stops
- Northwest Herald: Two women’s stories
- BREAKING: Settlement in Ligas Approved
- SJ-R Letter: Adjust state police training
- Tribune: For many with disabilities, a 'dream come true'
- Tribune: Adults with disabilities poised to win more housing options
- HuffPost: ACLU: Illinois State Police Show Racial Bias In Traffic Stops
- Tribune: ACLU files asks feds to investigate Illinois State Police searches
- Legislative Director Mary Dixon Profiled
- Getting the Details on Civil Unions
- Surveillance Cameras in Chicago
- DNA Collection on Arrest Violates Privacy
- Chicago Tribune: Refusal to Quit Discriminating Will Harm Children
- Across the Country: Eavesdropping Laws Applied to Audio-Recording Police in Public
- President Jill Metz Profiled in Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
- ACLU Challenges Illinois Transgender Policy
- ACLU Challenges State Criteria for Transgender Birth Certificates
- Abortion Restrictions Losing In Illinois
- Illinois DNA Law More Than Sufficient
- ACLU and Quaker Group Win Settlement Against Chicago Officials
- Belinda Sanchez Triumphs, Wears Tux to Prom, is Featured on Univision Chicago
- ACLU Applauds Illinois Lawmakers Call for Transparency in use of Surveillance Cameras
- How Many Surveillance Cameras Is Too Many?
- Mormons Should Join ACLU, says University President
- Abortion Bill Faces Obstacles in Illinois House
- Appellate Court Hears Arguments in Abortion Case
- UIC Public Health Director: HB3156 "Endangers Public Health"
- ACLU Attorney Calls for Federal Law Against Discrimination
- Anti-gay Adoption Bill Defeated in Illinois Senate
- ACLU Board President Educates on Civil Unions
- Melrose Park Teen Tries on Tux For Prom
- Anti-abortion proposal Encourages Viewing of Fetal Ultrasounds
- Gay Adoption Restrictions Debated in State Legislature
- AIDS: A Historical Look Back
- Battle Between Conscience and Medical Choices Wider Than Illinois
- Illinois Pharmacists Can Refuse Emergency Contraception, Judge Rules
- ACLU, PUBPAT And U.S. Solicitor General In Federal Appeals Court Today Challenging Patents On Human Genes Linked To Breast Cancer
- ACLU Urges House To Support Bill Challenging President’s Use Of Force In Libya Without Congressional Approval
- Girl gets OK to wear tuxedo to prom
- Patriot Act Needs Comprehensive Reform, ACLU Testifies
- Landmark Bill Introduced In House Today Would Ban Workplace Discrimination Based On Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
- Proposal to Define Marriage As Between Man and Woman is Dead
- Foster Care Agencies Must Follow Anti-discrimination Laws
- Lawsuit Alleges McHenry County Sheriff's Officials Mislabeling Hispanics, Covering it Up
- How the ACLU helped Reform Chicago
- ACLU Protests Bills Designed to Ban Abortion in Illinois
- Discriminatory adoption bill narrowly defeated in Illinois Senate
- ACLU and other activists block discriminatory adoption bill
- Slim majority back gay marriage, Post-ABC poll says
- IL Agriculture Committee Votes to Restrict Abortion Access
- Notorious Arizona Anti-Immigration Law Coming to Illinois?
- Uncertainty at Juvenile Jail in Wake of Latest Lawsuit
- Civil And Human Rights Groups Ask For Further U.N. Involvement To End Racial Discrimination In U.S.
- President Obama Issues Executive Order Institutionalizing Indefinite Detention
- Speaker Of The House Says He’ll Decide This Week Whether To Defend Discriminatory Defense Of Marriage Act
- SunTimes Editorial: Courts make right calls on free speech
- Former A.G. Ashcroft Should Be Held Accountable For Wrongful Arrest And Detention Of U.S. Citizen
- The ACLU Challenges Sex Discrimination at Wal-Mart
- Court upholds student free speech rights
- Can state-funded foster care agencies discriminate against gay parents?
- Decision on death penalty repeal coming soon
- It takes courage to correct injustice
- ACLU Asks Congress To Investigate Military Use Of “PSYOPS” On Members Of Congress
- Partner of Killed Trooper Fighting for Benefits
- "Defense of Marriage Act" Unconstitutional
- Another Three Months For The Patriot Act
- Stop The Assault on Women's Health
- Download the Brief
- Pregnancy Discrimination: it's illegal, even in bars.
- Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more than right
- The Decline of the Death Penalty
- Civil Unions Bill Passes Illinois House and Senate in Historic Moment for Fairness
- Executive Director Colleen Connell on Airport Body Scans and Gropes
- Airport Body Scanners: 'Stupid and Punitive,' the ACLU's Colleen Connell discovers
- Judge Lifts Temporary Restraining Order on Abortion Law
- ACLU of Illinois speaks in favor of nursing home task force report
- Colleen Connell talks to Chicago Tribune- Lobbyist fee violates freedom of speech
- Adam Schwartz talks to CBS 2
- Ben Wolf talks to Tribune about troubled youths returning to school
- The dangers of parental-involvement laws
- Colleen Connell discusses Hope Clinic v. Adams on Chicago Public Radio
- Illinois must act on racial profiling
- A Matter of No Middle Ground
- Professor Geoffrey Stone on the Nazis in Skokie
- A Great Take on Civil Unions in Illinois
- New York Times: The Wiretap This Time
- Press Releases
- Women (still) are not livestock
- ACLU of Illinois continues opposition to amended ordinances on demonstration rules, urges City Council to expand oversight of surveillance cameras
- ACLU of Illinois calls on Chicago City Council to reject ordinances adding unnecessary burdens to expression
- ACLU of Illinois condemns effort by City of Springfield to deny benefits to couples in civil unions
- Landmark Consent Decree Expands Opportunities for Nursing Home Residents with Disabilities
- Illinois Supreme Court to Hear Appeal in in Challenge to Illinois’ Parental Notice of Abortion Act
- Mattoon couple challenge denial of services at two Illinois Bed and Breakfast facilities
- Chicago police deployment scheme results in inequitable, unfair service for minority neighborhoods, suit says
- Illinois to issue accurate birth certificates without arbitrary surgery requirement
- Diocese of Peoria withdraws from foster care case
- ACLU of Illinois celebrates civil unions and end of the death penalty at dinner featuring former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
- ACLU asks appeals court to prevent future prosecutions for recording public conversations with police
- Court hears arguments in case challenging constitutionality of law granting immunity to telecommunications’ companies for spying
- Nursing Home Residents with Disabilities Celebrate Proposed Agreement with State in Landmark Lawsuit
- Summary Judgment in Catholic Charities Case against DCFS
- ACLU Seeks Details on Phone Tracking by Chicago Police
- ACLU challenges Catholic Charities policies on behalf of children in DCFS care
- State Issues New Birth Certificates to Three Transgender ACLU Clients
- New Data Shows Racial Bias in Police Consent Searches
- Centralia School District Stops Unconstitutional Censoring of Pro-LGBT Websites in Schools
- HIV-positive man detained at County jail denied essential medical care
- CHA Drops Proposal for Suspicionless Drug Testing of All Residents
- ACLU opposes Chicago Proposal for Suspicionless Drug Testing of Employees & Elected officials
- Statement on Court Ruling in Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Challenge
- Court Approves Landmark Agreement Expanding Community Living Opportunities for People with Developmental Disabilities in Illinois
- ACLU complaint: DOJ should investigate racial bias in Illinois State Police consent searches
- ACLU of Illinois asks state supreme court to protect public participation in public policy debates
- Wilmette School District Asked to Stop Unconstitutional Censoring of Pro-LGBT Websites in Schools
- Individuals Ask Court to Declare Unconstitutional Illinois Vital Records Requirements for Genital Surgery
- City, ACLU and American Friends Service Committee Settle Litigation
- ACLU Applauds Illinois Lawmakers Call for Transparency in use of Surveillance Cameras
- Defending Vulnerable Teens
- Proviso East student successfully challenges policy prohibiting young women from wearing tuxedos to prom
- Illinois Residents Gather to Express Outrage At Anti-Abortion Bills in House Agricultural Committee
- Illinois Governor signs historic measure ending broken death penalty system
- Illinois House takes up radical anti-abortion agenda items this week
- Doctors, Not Legislators, Should Determine Medical Treatment
- Chicago's Video Surveillance Camera System: Growing and Unregulated
- Illinois Governor Signs Historic Law, Extends a Measure of Fairness to All Couples
- Landmark Agreement Will Expand Community Living Opportunities for People with Developmental Disabilities in Illinois
- Victory! Civil Union Bill Passes the Illinois House & Senate
- Statement on Appellate Court Decision Upholding Illinois' Moment of Silence Law
- A New Day in Illinois for People with Mental Illness
- ACLU seeks privacy records from secretive state police "fusion center"
- Hearing Tuesday Morning on Proposed Settlement in Williams v. Quinn
- ACLU seeks end to prosecutions for recording public conversations with police
- ACLU of Illinois urges Governor Quinn to protect medical records privacy and security
- Court dismisses ACLU lawsuit, finds repeated, lengthy abusive border detentions to be "routine"
- Historic agreement reached to transition Illinois residents unnecessarily housed in large, impersonal nursing homes
- Federal court finds Illinois new lobbyist registration fee unconstitutional
- Court bars Illinois from collecting "unreasonably excessive" lobbyist registration fees
- Court asked to strike down "unlawful tax on free speech" for non-profit organizations and lobbyists
- Reversing Two Restrictive Policies, Illinois Issues Accurate Birth Certificates to Three Transgender Persons
- ACLU asks state court to strike down restriction on teens' access to abortion
- Civil Rights Groups Respond to End of Court Supervision of Integration Plan for Chicago Public Schools
- Statement of Lorie A. Chaiten on Zbaraz v. Madigan
- Court Ruling Does Not Change the Facts: Illinois Continues to Fail People with Disabilities
- Victory for Children in State Custody
- Budget cuts endanger lives of children in child welfare system, ACLU of Illinois tells federal court
- EFF and ACLU Planning to Appeal Dismissal of Dozens of Spying Cases
- Dissolution of "Red Squad" Consent Decree does not negate need to protect First Amendment Rights in Chicago
- Breaking News: Bill to Create Civil Unions in Illinois Clears House Committee
- On Path to Full Equality, ACLU of Illinois Welcomes Energized Effort to Create Civil Unions
- ACLU of Illinois Welcomes New Board Members
- Women Ask Court to Order New Illinois Birth Certificates Following Sex Reassignment Surgery Abroad
- Keeping Chicago Public Schools Integrated
- Breaking: Federal District Court Strikes Down Illinois' Moment of Silence Law
- ACLU, Madigan, State Attorneys General, Planned Parenthood File Suit Against Bush Administration's Health Care Denial Rule
- Landmark Agreement Will Improve Services for People With Disabilities
- ACLU Tells Court: FISA 2008 Act is Unconstitutional
- Free Speech, Freedom from Discrimination must be Balanced in High School T-Shirt Case
- Government Cannot Hide Accountability for Phone Record Collection by Claiming State Secrets, ACLU Tells Court
- ACLU of Illinois Responds to Decision in Terkel v. AT&T Case
- Studs Terkel, Other Prominent Chicagoans Join Together to Challenge AT&T Sharing of Telephone Records with the National Security Agency
...they never, never vary. They have principles. They defend Nazis marching in Skokie. I admire you.Joe Biden, Washington, DC
