A new Illinois law is going to cost Cook County $5 million in revenue each year. But the politician who pushed the law says those profits were being taken out of the pockets of the poorest residents.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Porter Porter says he doesn’t think Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s escape immediately means more drugs on the streets of Chicago,
Eighty to a hundred people die in Illinois prisons every year. Inmates complain about health care, but Illinois Department of Corrections insists it does a good job.
Chicago Police regularly turn away sex offenders trying to register because the office is too busy, leaving Cook County to try them for failing to register.