New website allows public to view traffic stop & search rates for law enforcement agencies across Illinois CHICAGO — A new report from the ACLU of Illinois confirms that racial disparities persist in Illinois traffic stops. Black and Latinx drivers are searched at higher rates than white drivers across the state. The report examines several…
CHICAGO — Prosecutors told a court that they want Jason Van Dyke to serve at least 96 years for the murder of Laquan McDonald, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Monday. Van Dyke was convicted of second-degree murder and 16 counts of of aggravated battery, one count for each shot, in Chicago on Oct. 8. From the…
CHICAGO — A teenager has been charged with shooting a transgender woman on the South Side of Chicago last year, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The newspaper reported that 17-year-old Tremon T. Hill was charged on Sunday with first-degree murder in the slaying of Dejanay Stanton, a 24-year-old trans woman, last August. From the Sun-Times: Officers…
CHICAGO — The Transformative Justice Law Project will be holding a name change mobilization at the Daley Center in Chicago on Jan. 25. From the Facebook event: Trans/Gender Affirming Name Change Mobilization When: Friday, January 25, 2018 Time: 9am – 3pm Where: Richard J. Daley Center 50 W. Washington Room 1202 Our Name Change Mobilization…
CHICAGO — Clinical services to prevent and treat wounds, abscesses and infections caused as a result of injection drug use are now being offered at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Community Outreach Intervention Project’s, or COIP, west side field office. Services will be provided by physicians, nurses and students from UIC’s Urban Global Medicine…
CHICAGO — Equality Illinois announced today that South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, a rising national star among Democrats, will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Gala presented by United, set to begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, February 2 at the Hilton Chicago. The Washington Post called him “the most interesting Mayor you’ve…
CHICAGO — Women and Children First Bookstore will host a night of poetry by transgender authors on Friday, Jan. 11. From the Facebook event: Please join us for a poetry reading with Chicago House’s TransWorks Mentorship Program, whose mission is to empower transgender and non-binary individuals to overcome barriers to employment by fostering professional and…
CHICAGO — Lamont Robinson was sworn in as the first out gay African-American state representative in Illinois this past week. He is in the seat formerly held by Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton. From WBBM Radio: “It matters because we need someone to be able to ring the alarm on the issues that are facing the LGBT…
CHICAGO – Just days before the opening of trial in Lippert v. Baldwin – a case challenging the inadequate and dismal quality of health care provided in Illinois prisons – the parties reached an agreement to resolve the case. The agreement, which is embodied in a consent decree and must be approved by the court,…
CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) has moved Strawberry Hampton, a 27-year-old transgender woman, from the all-male prisons where she was held, to Logan Correctional Center, a women’s prison. This comes after a year of IDOC rejecting Ms. Hampton and her lawyers’ pleas, and opposing a lawsuit that sought this transfer. Ms. Hampton…
