Afternoon Briefing: Cook County prosecutors seek to unionize
Good afternoon, Chicago. In the first major union drive to reach the office in decades, a group of assistant state’s ...
Cook County prosecutors seek to unionize in first major drive in decades
In the first major union drive to reach the office in decades, a group of assistant Cook County state’s attorneys have asked the office to voluntarily recognize a bargaining unit that would represent ...
Cook County state’s attorney to push for prison sentences in machine gun cases
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has directed prosecutors to seek prison sentences in every felony case involving machine gun-type weapons, according to a new policy circulated to her ...
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Cook County man found guilty of injuring a man during a 2022 shoot-out in Bloomington
A McLean County jury returned guilty verdicts Friday, convicting a man from Blue Island on three weapon charges.
Chicago doctor arrested in Florida told to stay in Illinois to face charges of aggravated cruelty to her dog
Anita Damodaran, 38, is facing aggravated animal cruelty charges after her dog was found barely breathing and malnourished ...
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Column: If prosecutors 'followed the science' as they claim, we’d have less crime, not more
To support these soft-on-crime actions, rogue prosecutors rely on two main studies — neither of which is either factual or ...
More than 100 new accusers file child sex abuse lawsuits against Illinois juvenile detention centers
Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the ...