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Cook County leaders tout success of their guaranteed income pilot program, Kristen Schorsch reports @wbez.org chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

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BREAKING: A Cook County judge tomorrow will consider whether to hear from a former #Guantánamo detainee before ruling whether to throw out a #murder confession allegedly coerced by a #Chicago detective, @wbez.org reports. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

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BREAKING: Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell's office slams State’s Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke for pulling prosecutors from charging decisions in some gun-possession felonies. His office says letting police officers decide on charges increases risks of injustice.

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1/2 BREAKING: Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is expanding a pilot effort to pull prosecutors from charging decisions in some nonviolent Chicago gun-possession felonies.

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BREAKING: #Chicago’s murder count keeps falling. The year’s first quarter had 96, 15% fewer than the first three months of last year and the fewest of any quarter since early 2019. Data analyst @jeffasher.bsky.social on @wbez.org points to a national trend. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

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Dems are in such disarray that Rahm Emanuel sees a shot at their 2028 prez nomination — the man Chicagoans tagged as Mayor 1% even before he closed 50 schools and his administration refused to release the video showing a white cop firing 16 shots into Black teen Laquan McDonald.

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A contingent of police and city council members suggest the city would save tax dollars by more frequently fighting civil rights lawsuits against CPD to trial. Here’s a new data point for that debate.

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(1/3) MORE BREAKING NEWS: An Illinois appellate court has thrown out a 45-year prison sentence imposed on a man prosecuted as an adult for a Chicago murder committed when he was 15 years old. Terrel Jenkins was convicted of the 2002 fatal shooting of Lloyd Ware.

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1/2 BREAKING: A federal jury in #Chicago this afternoon awarded more than $120 million in damages to two men for their wrongful murder convictions. John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were teenagers when charged with the 2003 murder of Christopher Collazo, 18, in the city.

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How Trump's deportation threat is upending two Chicago families with TPS, reports @adrianacardmag.bsky.social & @chipmitchell1.bsky.social www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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Amid the #Trump/#Musk onslaught, a U.S. senator speaks up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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BREAKING: With or without Temporary Protected Status, many #Venezuelan #immigrants intend to stay in the U.S. But uncertainty from losing TPS is putting pressure on business owners and straining relationships. Tap "Listen"! @adrianacardmag.bsky.social @wbez.org www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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1/3 BREAKING A Cook County judge today ordered the release of a #Chicago man who has spent nearly 29 years locked up for a murder he says he didn’t commit. The judge yesterday tossed out Robert Johnson's conviction. He was 16 when arrested after Eddie Binion's murder on the South Side.

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A Friday announcement by Cook County top prosecutor Eileen O'Neill Burke went mostly unnoticed. Burke, who stressed law and order to win her office last year, is backing an #Illinois bill to ease up on some first-time gun offenders. Imagine the uproar if her predecessor, Kim Foxx, had proposed it.

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The video of this fatal abduction (at the top) and the evidence tying the crime to Maduro (at the end) are nothing short of chilling. Between is an image of Maduro welcoming Trump’s envoy in #Venezuela. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...

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Trump has initiated crackdowns on immigration across the U.S. In this interview with @chipmitchell1.bsky.social, political scientist @drgob.bsky.social discusses his research on sanctuary cities and what scholars have learned about mass deportations. Learn more in @wbez.org ⤵️ buff.ly/3CbnoXH

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Why is @realDonaldTrump ordering sanctions against this Ivy League university? Was it too tough on the Gaza protesters?

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The president has stoked fears of a ‘migrant crime’ wave, but a leading scholar says sanctuary policies encourage immigrants to cooperate with police. by @chipmitchell1.bsky.social www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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BREAKING: A political scientist who studies #sanctuary cities tells @wbez.org they encourage immigrants to work with #police. He contradicts President #Trump, who is threatening #Chicago and #Illinois for separating their employees from #immigration enforcement. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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A sting operation found that real estate professionals often declined to rent Chicago-area properties to investigators posing as low-income families, a watchdog group announced. www.wbez.org/real-estate-...

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I realize this is kind of useless to say but I heard this on the radio yesterday morning and it made me cry

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Wonderful, humanizing journalism by @chipmitchell1.bsky.social and @wbez.org. Was commuting into work when I heard this and it really hit home how this upcoming MAGA mass deportation is the loss of our friends and neighbors.

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This version includes the audio story. Tap "Listen." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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Historians say Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations echos calls to drive out immigrants during the 1930s and the 1950s. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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This story was conceived for radio. The page now includes that audio. Tap the red "Listen" button.

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The faces of Chicagoans who fear what’s coming next week. Great read from WBEZ’s @chipmitchell1.bsky.social .

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Absolutely stunning, heartbreaking story

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I met some #immigrant parents in #Chicago who are #undocumented but their baby is a U.S. citizen. As #Trump returns to office, their main fear about his promised mass #deportation is separation from the boy. Full story at @wbez.org. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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I'm all for holding @mayorofchicago.bsky.social accountable on this goal, but six days don't tell much. Some context would also help. #Chicago's 10 murders from Dec. 31-Jan. 6 were slightly down from the 10.3 average for those dates over the previous decade. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/08/d...

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As U.S. Capitol visitors pay final respects to #Carter, @npr.org airs this 2007 convo with @steveinskeep.bsky.social. The ex-prez defended his book #Palestine: Peace Not #Apartheid and argued #Israeli settlements in the West Bank were blocking a Middle East peace deal. www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...

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1/2 Cook County’s new state’s attorney, Eileen O’Neill Burke, is accused of directing a top prosecutor to threaten a witness with #perjury charges to scare him and other potential witnesses from recanting in #police misconduct cases. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/0...

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This former health insurance executive now backs #Medicare for all: “Of the … 100 million Americans with medical debt, a great majority have health insurance. Their plans are simply inadequate for their medical needs, despite the continuing rise in premiums.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

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Tune into @wbez.org at 4:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. today to hear more about our findings about the extent to which this generation of Black men have been affected by drug overdose deaths at nearly every stage of their adult life.

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Regulators approve $606M rate hike for ComEd's revised clean energy plan chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-aff...

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#ICYMI

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