Lee Harris, who spent more than three decades in prison in the murder of a Gold Coast woman before being exonerated and released earlier this year, filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging Chicago police officers framed him for the murder. Harris, a former resident of the Cabrini-Green housing projects, was sent to prison in 1992 on a 90-year sentence after being convicted in the 1989 murder of Dana .
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The state has awarded 48 cultivation licenses to craft cannabis growers, and 100% of the licenses are going to social equity winners folks who were most impacted by the nation’s so-called war on drugs.
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Toi Hutchinson, at center left, appeared with Douglas Kelly, at left, of the Cannabis Equity Illinois Coalition, State Rep. LaShawn Ford, at center, Rickey Hendon, right center, and Tyrone Muhammed, right, of Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change. (Jonah Meadows/Patch)
CHICAGO Social equity applicants for state licenses to sell cannabis gathered at a West Side restaurant Wednesday to urge Gov. J.B. Pritzker to quickly sign a recently passed bill authorizing a trio of new lotteries to divvy up pot shop permits.
The group of about two dozen hopeful marijuana merchants was joined by the sponsor of House Bill 1443, State Rep. LaShawn Ford (D-Chicago), and former state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, the governor s top cannabis advisor.