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Chicago legal reform group lambasts Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke in new report
The Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts found that in Burke’s first 500 days in office, she has pursued policies that “present fewer checks on police power in prosecution and prevent wrongfully convicted people from seeking redress.”
by Dave Byrnes May 20, 2026
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Feds “conducting surveillance” at domestic violence courthouse, internal documents show
A court general order and new state law have not stopped ICE from increasingly staking out Chicago area courthouses for arrests since February. Sightings of federal agents near court continue this week as “processing” of detainees at Broadview has accelerated.
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“Please don’t let his case be forgotten”—families of murder victims say CPD is ghosting them
Supporters and families of victims attended Thursday’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability meeting to demand answers.
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Protesters mock ICE, Broadview police at dildo day of action outside detention center
The spectacle saw hundreds of phallic items, big and small, flood the designated free speech zone—a small barricaded area where people have been permitted to demonstrate since President Trump’s mass deportation blitz swept through Chicagoland.
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Chicago cop who killed Anthony Alvarez in 2021 engaged in fatal unreported police chase last year, new lawsuit alleges
Attorneys say they have evidence showing Evan Solano, who chased and shot Alvarez in the back, initiated a deadly “ghost” pursuit that killed 29-year old Eliseo Maya late at night on the Northwest Side in February 2025.
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“Urgency was left in the dust long ago”—few answers from Chicago police superintendent on department collaboration with ICE
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling defended his officers’ actions amid the Trump Administration’s mass deportation campaign in Chicago, waving off community criticism as people not having an “open mind.”
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“Pressure, influence, and intimidation”—house call by former Chicago cop sparks dispute among police oversight officials
Retired Chicago police sergeant Lee Bielecki’s snooping at the home of a member of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability is part of a pattern of intimidation and attempts to influence the nomination process for the commission, activists and police district councilors say.
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Border Patrol agents ignored orders to end car chase before gassing Chicago neighborhood
DHS claimed federal agents intentionally hit a fleeing vehicle to try to stop the driver in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood last October—but videos of the 18-minute high-speed pursuit show they actually blew a tire and crashed after ignoring a supervisor’s commands to end the chase.
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Civil rights stories removed from Border Patrol’s website during Black History Month
Historical accounts of women, Black men, and the agency’s deployment against segregationists in the sixties have disappeared from the official Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website.