by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 20, 2021 | Illinois News, National News
The just-revealed report by Special Prosecutor Dan Webb is unsparing in its criticism. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her staff badly mishandled the prosecution of TV star Jussie Smollett and repeatedly made “false and misleading statements” to the public...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 18, 2021 | Illinois News, McHenry
By the end of 2022, every McHenry County sheriff’s deputies will be equipped with a body-worn camera following a new state law that requires each police officer in Illinois to wear a camera when interacting with the public by 2025. The deadline for the McHenry County...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Illinois News
The smartest thing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did with her lawsuit against the Fraternal Order of Police over its opposition to her Covid vaccine mandate was to drop it. The mayor said last week she is dropping the suit because she’s now satisfied with the number of...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Illinois News
December 3, 2021 In an analysis of Cook County’s FY2022 budget proposal released in November, the Civic Federation supported the Cook County budget proposal of $8.0 billion. This blog post takes a closer look at public safety spending in the County’s budget by...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Illinois News
Merchants, Lightfoot and others look for answers amid 21 arrests and an attack that injured a CTA driver across from Millennium Park. Another outbreak of mass youth violence over the weekend has downtown merchants, a big labor union, police and others trying to...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Illinois News, Winnebago
ROCKFORD — A lawsuit filed on behalf of Black Lives Matter protesters who were held in the Winnebago County Jailed for three days without bond hearings is set to be heard next week before the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The protesters were arrested...
