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Attorney General Merrick Garland at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Washington on July, 22 2021.... President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, run by Garland, is launching strike forces elsewhere: New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C. Everyone from Biden to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her top cop are under pressure to address the surge in violence.... Chicago police Superintendent David Brown is also under pressure from aldermen and activists to t

Anti-abortion pregnancy centers can be penalized by the Illinois attorney general if they use deceptive practices or misinformation to interfere with patients seeking abortion care under a measure Gov.... A sign at the entrance to the Waterleaf Women's Center on East New York Street in Aurora.... This center is directly across the street from a Planned Parenthood....

Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel to pay their respects to French, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Aug.... Gallagher is a retired teacher, and he said police officers sometimes helped him out in school.“ Police sacrifice a lot, ” he said.... “ They put their lives on the line.” Rolland Young, 69, came from Chinatown hoping to offer condolences....

“ Obviously we have a difference of opinion, or we would have already agreed upon those( measures), but we’re not going to stop fighting for the reforms that are necessary to move our police department forward.” She added: “ There cannot be any retreat on reform and accountability.... And no, not everything is in the measure that was passed today, but that work continues.”[ Most read] From booster shots to mixing and matching vaccines, 5 things to know for those who got Johnson Johnson？... Lig

Chicago police Sergeant Sam Cirone attends a Chicago Police Board meeting at the JLM Abundant Life Center, Dec.... James Gilger, the other detective working for Cirone on the case, left the department before facing any discipline. Three other supervisors in the reinvestigation have also since left the department, including Deputy Chief Dean Andrews, Cmdr.... It’s exactly the outcome the Safe Haven Law was meant to prevent....

Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara after a hearing in Cook County Circuit Court on an FOP motion to halt implementation of Mayor Lightfoot's vaccine mandate at the Daley Center on Oct.... Police Superintendent David Brown has said many officers decide to comply before receiving a direct command and has pushed back on Catanzara’s predictions that mass noncompliance would deplete the police force.... But there are thousands of police officers who have yet to obey the mandate.[ Mo

Shortly after saying Illinois Democrats have “ learned lessons ” from recent corruption convictions of close associates of Michael Madigan, Gov.... We ought to be continuing the improvement process.”[ Feds eyeing who’s who of political power players in raid on state Sen.... The stadium opened in 2006 and saddled the village with huge debts....

Shortly after saying Illinois Democrats have “ learned lessons ” from recent corruption convictions of close associates of Michael Madigan, Gov.... We ought to be continuing the improvement process.”[ Feds eyeing who’s who of political power players in raid on state Sen.... The stadium opened in 2006 and saddled the village with huge debts....

Boik said he cannot provide a new time frame for the permanent policy, but he is hoping for progress by late fall.“ I wouldn’t characterize our efforts as CPD sitting on our hands, ” Boik said.... The department also had internal focus groups with officers on the policy, officials said. Boik said those community conversations have taken place in the form of two citywide meetings, and the department also allowed organizations to request an in-depth meeting with its team working on the policy....