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Illinois human trafficking bill focuses cross-agency coordination, victims

By Bridgette Fox and UIS Public Affairs Reporting
Mar 22, 2025 4:00 am - Thousands of human trafficking cases likely unreported in Illinois. New bill aims to improve screening and support.
Prisoner Review Board sued for negligence a year after released prisoner killed Chicago boy

By Hannah Meisel
Mar 22, 2025 4:00 am - Mother files lawsuit seeking damages from Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Department of Corrections, and others for failing to prevent her ex-boyfriend from murdering her 11-year-old son after his release from prison.
Illinois lawmakers pursue restrictions on search warrants after botched raid in Chicago

By Ben Szalinski
Mar 22, 2025 4:00 am - In response to 2019 wrong-address police raid in Chicago, Illinois legislators propose limiting no-knock warrants, restricting late-night raids, and requiring bodycams during warrant executions.
Pritzker’s community college initiative stalls in House committee

By Peter Hancock
Mar 22, 2025 4:00 am - Pritzker's proposal to allow community colleges to offer 4-year degrees stalled in legislature over concerns about impact on existing university programs, but negotiations continue
Federal DOJ launches probe into Illinois’ treatment of people with disabilities

By Beth Hundsdorfer and Molly Parker
Mar 22, 2025 4:00 am - The Department of Justice is investigating abuse and neglect allegations at Illinois developmental centers, as well as whether the state puts people with disabilities at risk of institutionalization.
George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who became a beloved champion, dies at 76

By GREG BEACHAM
Mar 21, 2025 10:09 pm - George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” to Muhammad Ali before his inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful business owner, died Friday night. He was 76.
USDA cancels $500M in food deliveries, leaving food banks scrambling

By Annie Gowen and Patrick Svitek
Mar 21, 2025 9:52 pm - Food banks across the country — already facing huge cuts to locally grown food assistance — learned this week that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 mi...
Elon Musk won’t receive secret China briefings, Trump says

By Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima
Mar 21, 2025 8:56 pm - President Donald Trump on Friday said Elon Musk would not receive a briefing on secret plans for a potential war against China, given his substantial conflicts of interes...
A federal lawsuit says the Trump administration has unlawfully shuttered the Voice of America

By DAVID BAUDER
Mar 21, 2025 8:40 pm - A lawsuit filed late Friday accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully shutting down the Voice of America and asks a federal court to restore the outlet that for deca...
Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza and destroy its only cancer hospital

By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN, SAM MEDNICK and DAVID RISING
Mar 21, 2025 6:35 pm - JERUSALEM — Israeli forces advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip on Friday and blew up the only specialized cancer hospital in the war-torn territory, as Israeli leaders vo...

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