With months of political debate, campaign rhetoric and legal challenges seemingly in the rearview mirror after Tuesday s Illinois Supreme Court decision upholding the Pretrial Fairness Act, now comes the hard part: putting the law into action and making it work.
The Illinois legal system will soon undergo a major transformation after the State Supreme Court voted 5-2 to eliminate cash bail as part of the Safe-T Act.
An Independence Day Parade just didn t feel right to Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering. Not when people still are shaken a year after the city s most profound tragedy. "I think the right word is unsettled," Rotering said.
Despite his election this April, Clyde McLemore was not sworn in as a member of the Lake County Regional Board of School Trustees on Monday night as the Lake County state's attorney's office, Regional Office of Education and current board members asserted he is ineligible since Julie Gonka's term is not up until 2025.