Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Illinois Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act that sought to create criminal justice reform, such as law enforcement agencies reporting inmate deaths and ending cash bail.
Fentanyl has been causing problems for the United States for years — the country’s answer for it was the War on Drugs; the idea of punishment and imprisonment will curve people’s addiction.
A Cook County jury awarded Sue Kamuda damages after the Environmental Protection Agency reported medical tool sterilization company Sterigenics emitted cancer-developing gas from its factories.
As the school year has been happening, students’ way to gain credit requirements and move in grade levels changed after the Downers Grove Community School District School Board voted to remove passage and credit requirements.
The West Chicago Elementary School District 33 School Board held a meeting to bring three new administrators into its team: a principal, an assistant principal and a coordinator of partnerships.
The Illinois Housing Development Authority will restart its Abriendo Puertas program to help people of color get housing through forgivable loans from the $10 million in the Rubild Illinois capital funds.
As Illinois public school have recently reopened their doors for the new school year, past test scores are bringing up concerns about students’ performances.
Opponents of the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act are worried about its elimination of cash bail, effective Jan. 1, 2023.