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Ex-CPD sergeant’s corruption toll: 212 convictions overturned after dozens more thrown out Friday

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office did an about-face Friday and said it would agree to vacating the convictions of an additional 44 people it had initially opposed.

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Former state’s attorney candidate says business, union leaders fed up with Lightfoot, urging him to run for mayor — and he’s listening

Bill Conway’s father, William E. Conway Jr., helped found the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and has a net worth pegged at $3.5 billion in 2020. He donated $10.5 million to his son’s 2020 run for Cook County state’s attorney.

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Cook County judge ‘refused to speak’ with police investigating another judge

Judge Mary Kathleen McHugh was in the car when Associate Judge Mohammed Ghouse was caught driving drunk in Hinsdale, records show.

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Willie Wilson announces 3rd gas giveaway

The $1 million giveaway is planned for Saturday at yet-to-be-announced locations throughout Cook County.

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Feds announce they won’t pursue case against former Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke in shooting of Laquan McDonald

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors will not bring any case against the former Chicago police officer who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, U.S. Attorney John Lausch’s office announced Monday.

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Kim Foxx: I won’t ‘cut corners’ — despite crime spike — in county with long history of wrongful convictions

The Cook County state’s attorney told the Sun-Times Wednesday her office is taking a harder look at cases than under her predecessors.

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Veteran prosecutor to oversee criminal cases in Cook County

Ethan Holland was named chief of the county’s Criminal Prosecutions Bureau.

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Cook County announces $12 million grant program for groups working on health, food insecurity

The money will go to organizations supporting COVID-19 education, prevention and treatment, as well as mental health, food insecurity and youth development.

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Chicago detective, retired prosecutor under investigation for possible overtime abuse, sources say

The officer has been reassigned to the city’s non-emergency call center as the Cook County state’s attorney’s office and police internal affairs investigate.

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Election-year politics make crime, inflation top issues in shortened Illinois legislative session

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Republican state lawmakers, outnumbered and looking to boost their relevance, had one goal for the election-year legislative session — to paint majority Democrats as soft-on-crime and anti-police.

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Taxing times for popular South Side restaurant eased by county agency

Josephine’s Cooking in Chatham hasn’t paid its property taxes in 12 years. Thanks to the actions of the Cook County Land Bank Authority, it’s avoided losing the property through a tax sale.

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Better mental health care, affordable housing, public transportation all priorities for Cook County equity task force

Cook County Board President Preckwinkle said the fund has a “very simple” goal: “We want safe, healthy and thriving communities in all areas of Cook County, not just the ones with the most resources.”

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Keep ‘essential movement’ for accused suspects on electronic monitoring

Most accused people in Cook County return to our neighborhoods at the end of their cases. Allowing people to attend to their basic human needs while accused of an offense should not be a radical idea

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Commentary: We believe in ‘innocent until proved guilty’ — unless a defense attorney is up for office

I have had a very satisfying 57-year legal career — with a few more to come, I hope. I was a prosecutor who sent a number of murderers to the penitentiary, I served an East African country as a Peace Corps volunteer, and I tried cases on behalf of poor…

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Get rid of ‘essential movement’ in electronic monitoring for suspects in violent crimes

Curbing the observation of arrestees who are in a program that is all about monitoring them is irrational and dangerous.

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What Cook County must do to end racial health disparities

We do not have to accept different health outcomes based on the color of a person’s skin.

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DNA evidence ties Cleveland man to sexual assaults in Lake View and Portage Park from 25 years ago

Juan Roldan, 59, was taken into custody in Ohio on March 10 and charged with felony aggravated criminal sexual assault and home invasion for the attacks, which took place in 1997 and in 1998, according to Cook County prosecutors.

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Defendants on home confinement now get 2 days a week to roam freely, and some are getting in trouble

Since a new provision of the Illinois SAFE-T Act took effect Jan. 1, dozens of people on home confinement in Cook County have been arrested while free of supervision, records show.

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Federal investigation targets possible ghost payrolling in Cook County sheriff’s office, sources say

CHICAGO — Federal authorities have launched a criminal probe into alleged ghost-payrolling at the Cook County sheriff’s office involving at least nine sheriff’s employees, including one high-ranking official, sources have told The Chicago Tribune.

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Editorial: There’s a solid case for cutting sentences. But few trust Kim Foxx

In Cook County Jail, you can find senior citizens who’ve done two decades or more of time for a nonviolent offense, had plenty of opportunity to rethink their lives and now represent no real danger to anyone. Cannot reasonable people agree that there is a case for rethinking their initial…

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CPS security guard charged with sexually assaulting teenage student

Cook County Judge Mary Marubio ordered Tywain Carter, 29, held in lieu of posting $20,000 bond at a hearing Wednesday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.

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On anniversary of his death, Adam Toledo’s family and community members honor teen with a vigil and call for officer who shot him to be held accountable

CHICAGO — On the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of teenager Adam Toledo by a Chicago police officer during a foot chase, his family went to the church where his funeral Mass was held and then visited his grave.

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Questions remain as resentencing initiative championed by Kim Foxx is slow out of the gate in Cook County

Cook County prosecutors’ new effort to reduce sentences for some longtime inmates — hailed by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and other reform advocates as a way to right the wrongs of the tough-on-crime era — will have an uphill climb before some judges, if its first week in court is…

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Cook County government rallies to find a new flag design

Flags are saluted, flown above public buildings, sewn into public employee’s uniforms — even draped over coffins during funeral services. Given all that, a flag ought to be a good one.

Chicago Tribune

Steven Spielberg is up for another Oscar: We ranked all 33 of his movies, from worst to No. 1 best

Forty-two years ago a little-known, 30-something actor named Steven Spielberg played a Cook County Assessor clerk in “The Blues Brothers.” He had a few lines, such as “Can I help you?” and “Here is your receipt.” His on-screen career came and went so fast you never noticed. But that filmmaking…

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