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Charles Rex Arbogast/APTwin City immigration advocates are cheering the Biden administration's move to expand work permits for asylum seekers from Venezuela, but they'd like to see more done to help those from other countries where residents are fleeing. -
Peter Hancock/Capitol News IllinoisDisplays offer insight into role of judicial branch
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County officials in downstate Illinois are worried about what the end of cash bail could mean for their communities’ drug problems.
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Advocates for the Illinois SAFE-T Act look to the challenges and work ahead of them as the end of cash bail went into effect this week. One of their tasks is to ensure the law is implemented as intended.
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Research shows midwives help improve outcomes for both parent and child. But hospitals across the Chicago area are not investing in midwife programs.
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Nationally, about a third of foster care youth identify as LGBTQ+, and researchers say they are at significantly higher risk of experiencing homelessness and physical harm.
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Hearings have been longer, more deliberative – resembling federal detention proceedings
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Illinois is the first state in the U.S. to abolish cash bail. The historic change took effect on Monday, prompting confusion and long days.
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Illinoisans who own weapons that can no longer be purchased or sold in the state under its new assault weapons ban will soon be able to register those weapons so they can legally keep them.
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The defendant’s and the prosecutor’s tables include a handful of lawyers on both sides, including State’s Attorney J. Hanley.
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Winnebago County State’s Attorney J. Hanley said his office has adopted changes required by the law months prior to the policy going into effect.
