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CHICAGO - Three transgender individuals will ask Cook County Judge Michael Hyman today to approve a consent decree in a class action case designed to ensure that transgender individuals can receive new birth certificates that reflect their correct gender from the Illinois Department of Public Hea
In October 2011, the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of itself and the Central Austin Neighborhood Association (CANA) challenging the manner in which the Chicago Police Department deploys police officers across the City’s many districts.
On Friday, September 21, 2012, an Illinois appellate court issued a ruling in Morr-Fitz v.
CHICAGO – The Illinois Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments today in Springfield in the case of Hope Clinic v. Adams, a challenge to the never-enforced Parental Notification of Abortion Act of 1995.
A new report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois details the ways in which the state’s two “fusion centers” lack some critical safeguards to protect the privacy of Illinois residents. The report notes, fo
CHICAGO – A significant number of new child abuse or neglect investigators will be added to the Department of Children and Family Services workforce under an agreement reached between the State and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.