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Today’s City Council vote is a modest down payment on the urgent need for police reform and restoring the broken trust between the community and the police in Chicago.
Late yesterday, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit stayed a lower court order blocking Election Day voter registration at polling places in Illinois for the November general election. The decision comes in the case of Harlan v.
Earlier today, U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan granted a motion to block Election Day voter registration at polling places in Illinois for the November general election. The decision comes in the case of Harlan v.
GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested yesterday that the discredited police practice of stop-and-frisk is the answer to the gun violence plaguing too many of Chicago's neighborhoods. He is wrong.
CHICAGO – Monique Hanson, a nationally-recognized leader in philanthropy and development, is the new Director of Development for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. Ms.