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ACLU Releases New Report Card on Lactation Room Access in Illinois Courthouses
Nursing parents across Illinois visiting courthouses may still regularly be told to express breast milk in a bathroom stall despite an Illinois law requiring a private, clean lactation space in these public facilities.
Champaign ACLU & NAACP Urge Unit 4 Schools to Create Plan to Address Persistent Racial Disparities
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.
Doctors Across Illinois Call for Medical Judgment - Not Religious Beliefs - to Guide Health Care
A national medical association and Illinois medical professionals today joined together in support of their patients, calling on a federal court to reject a challenge to the State’s health care right of conscience law.
ACLU of Illinois Reacts to CPD’s Failure to Meet Reform Deadlines Per Monitor’s New Report
Today, the Independent Monitoring Team for the Chicago Police Department Consent Decree released its first report outlining the progress on reform efforts for the
ACLU Celebrates District 211’s New Policy Allowing Full Access of Locker Rooms to Transgender Students
Today, the District 211 Board voted to approve a new policy that will grant transgender students unrestricted access to the locker room of the student's gender identity and end the use of privacy stalls.