After a flurry of legal filings this week, the opposing sides in the fight over the elimination of cash bail in Illinois are now less than two weeks away from a SAFE-T Act showdown before the state Supreme Court.
A local group is urging victims of a cryptocurrency scam that targeted Latinos in Chicago and the suburbs to speak up. And it wants the state attorney general to help them get justice.
The former operator of a St. Charles seafood restaurant and store has been accused of stealing more than $185,000 in seafood as part of an alleged scheme involving workers at a Bensneville wholesaler.
Meet Robert W. "Wes" Wheeler Jr., the new special agent in charge of the FBI s Chicago field office. "The capacity for impactfulness is what appeals to me," he said about the posting.
Amid last year s contentious debate over the SAFE-T Act and the elimination of cash bail in Illinois, a pair of Loyola University Chicago criminal justice professors set out to determine whether bail reform does, as some claimed, lead to more crime. Here s what they found.