Under the agreement reached today UpRising Bakery will be free to move forward with plans for future events, including the rescheduled drag event, in accord with current zoning laws.

Just one week after UpRising Bakery, a Lake in the Hills business, was extensively vandalized and forced to cancel a brunch event featuring drag performers, local officials are abandoning their support for the shop and owner and forcing owner Corrina Bendel Sac to cancel all future special events.

In 2021, Black drivers were approximately 1.7 times more likely to be stopped by police than white drivers. While Latinx drivers did not see a statewide disparity, they are more likely to be stopped in many jurisdictions. 

Governor Pritzker and legislative leaders announced that they will not call a special session of the Illinois General Assembly this week to address measures Illinois can take in response to the Supreme Court overturning the landmark decision recognizing abortion in Roe v. Wade.

This Supreme Court this morning recklessly stripped the constitutional right to abortion recognized in Roe v. Wade from millions of people in this country. People in nearly half of the states across the country are likely to lose the right to make fundamental decisions over their own body very soon.

Earlier today, the City of Aurora notified our clients Aurora Pride that their permit for a Pride Parade on Sunday, June 12 has been reinstated.

Cristina Nichole Iglesias will become the first person to receive gender-affirming surgery while in federal custody under a landmark settlement agreement approved on Tuesday by a federal court in Illinois.

Abortion access in Illinois expanded today with the end of the Parental Notice of Abortion (PNA) law.

Chicago police are accused of unlawfully arresting Julie Campos, a Southside Latina resident—who was 19 years old at the time—at her place of employment, a Family Dollar store located on East 79th Street.