A law abolishing cash bail will take effect in Illinois on Sept. 18. The change makes Illinois the first state to eliminate the practice and a nationally watched testing ground for whether such a change can work.
Public defenders, while supportive of reform, anticipate major workload increases.
Secretary of state’s office will hold hearing later this month.
Authorities say one man was killed and seven people were wounded in three separate shootings hours apart in Peoria.
Palmeter had legally purchased his guns in recent months, even though he underwent a required mental health examination in 2017. Palmeter killed himself after shooting his three victims.
Unlike his bookings for three other batches of charges, this one yielded a historic first: the mug shot of a former American president, scowling at the camera.
Tim Mapes was charged with lying to grand jury investigating Madigan and his inner circle.
Deliberations begin in obstruction of justice and perjury trial of Tim Mapes.
The Secretary of State’s Office did not say how many threats have been received, or which libraries may have been targeted. News reports indicated some facilities received threats in the Chicago area.
Chief Boone has been a law enforcement professional for 33 years and retired as Chief of Police in Norfolk, Virginia before finding his way to Urbana.
The grand jury heard from witnesses into the evening Monday in the election subversion investigation into Donald Trump. The long day of testimony was punctuated by the mysterious and brief appearance on a county website of a list of criminal charges against the former president that prosecutors later disavowed.
The Fulton County investigation is the latest criminal case for Trump as he runs for the White House in 2024.
Marion County Record Publisher and Editor Eric Meyer said police raided the newspaper’s office on Friday, seizing the newspaper’s computers, phones and file server and the personal cellphones of staff, based on a search warrant investigating alleged identity theft. Meyer is a former associate professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Danville School District 118 school board voted Wednesday to add the officer at South View Upper Elementary School.
Tim Mapes accused of lying to grand jury despite immunity order.