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Illinois State Police and the DuPage County States Attorney’s Office today agreed to stop enforcing a state law prohibiting roadside panhandling in Illinois while a lawsuit challenging the law moves forward. Michael Dumiak and Christopher Simmons filed the lawsuit in August 2019.
Today, advocates from across Illinois celebrate the final rule that regulates Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery.
The below statement can be attributed to Ben Ruddell, Criminal Justice Policy Director, ACLU of Illinois.
The City of Chicago today announced a three-month delay before applying new rules for nonprofit employees to register as lobbyists. The ACLU of Illinois and other groups have opposed these rules because they are burdensome and raise troubling issues of equity and free speech.
Transgender prisoners in Illinois prisons will have access to more humane, professional health care after U.S.
Yesterday, a Ford County judge ordered the owner of a Paxton Bed & Breakfast to comply with the 2016 order of the Illinois Human Rights Commission, including by paying damages awarded to Mark and Todd Wathen.