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New Data Shows Chicago Police Conducted An Additional Half-Million Traffic Stops in 2023

Chicago police officers reported making more than a half million stops last year on the city streets, continuing to stop Black and Brown motorists at rates disproportionate to their numbers in the driving population.

July 3, 2024

ACLU Of Illinois Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Presidential Immunity

The notion that the most powerful person in our country cannot be held accountable for illegal acts in the Oval Office undermines our country’s most basic edict – that no one is above the law.

July 1, 2024

ACLU Of Illinois Responds to Supreme Court Order on Medical Care for Pregnant Persons in Need of Emergency Care

The Court could have chosen to protect women’s health at a moment when this health care is under attack. It missed the opportunity.

June 27, 2024

Chicago Agrees to Prominent Route for DNC Demonstration

The coalition, Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws: Coalition for Reproductive Justice & LGBTQ+ Liberation will be permitted to march on Michigan Avenue after the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit on their behalf last month.

June 26, 2024

ACLU Calls on CPD to Stop Delay Tactics and Address Racially Discriminatory Traffic Stops

The ACLU of Illinois is condemning the Chicago Police Department’s request to put on ice a lawsuit it filed last year, Wilkins v. Chicago, challenging racially discriminatory traffic stops.

June 25, 2024

Harmful Confinement Policies at Knox County Juvenile Detention Facility Challenged in Federal Court

Youth detained at the Mary Davis Detention Home (“MDH”) in Galesburg, Illinois continue to endure abusive, extended solitary confinement despite multiple failed audits and repeated warnings about the harm of this practice.

June 17, 2024