Sonya Massey was shot to death in her home on July 6th by a Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy.

We urge prosecutors to exercise restraint in charging any violations emanating from the protests. 

Police in Illinois conducted nearly 200,000 more traffic stops in 2023 compared to the previous year.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.