One of the main ways the ACLU of Illinois works to protect civil liberties and civil rights is through litigation. Litigation remains one of the fundamental tools with which our adept legal team fights for equality and civil rights throughout the state. This section of our website documents the cases we’re working on now and those we’ve handled in recent years.
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The ACLU of Illinois and the American Civil Liberties Union, along with the National and Illinois Associations of Criminal Defense Lawyers, filed amicus briefs in the...
In June 2023, we filed a class action lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional conditions at the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center on behalf of a young person...
We represent five Black and Latino Chicagoans in a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and City of Chicago seeking to end CPD’s practice of racially...
In January 2020, the General Assembly passed the Pretrial Fairness Act, historic legislation eliminating Illinois’ unjust and ineffective system of money bail – which ACLU...