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Racial disparities continue to be a problem in Champaign Unit 4 Schools a full decade after the District was released from accountability under a federal court agreement meant to address racial segregation in the Unit.
In the wake of the tragedies in Dallas, Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minnesota this week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois issued the following statement:
Chicago – African Americans in Chicago are far more likely than white residents to be subjected to traffic stops by the Chicago Police Department, according to a new study released toda
A full decade after Illinois mandated that all law enforcement agencies in the state collect and record data about every traffic stop as a means of curbing racial profiling, a study today pointed to continuing signs of troubling racial bias in so-called consent searches by police. The
Statement of Mary Dixon, Legislative Director American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois: