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In a sworn deposition, an ex-aide to Chicago Ald. Jim Gardiner said the alderman was obsessed over criticism on his ward’s Facebook page, referring to his detractors as “rats” and vowing to rid the ward of them.

On Dec. 18, 2012, Chicago awoke to the sight of bedsheets dangling from the 17th floor of the federal high-rise jail in the Loop and a made-for-Hollywood tale of two convicted bank robbers on the run.

Illinois law prohibits people convicted of sex offenses involving minors from living within 500 feet of schools, playgrounds and day cares.

While the Illinois Department of Corrections says an apartment building in Joliet housing several sex offenders is operating within the law, the city’s mayor...

A heated meeting centered around an apartment building that houses about six sex offenders.

“It’s a massive crisis throughout the state that has been created by Illinois laws,” said Adele Nicholas, a civil rights attorney.

The wait is on for a panel of judges from the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that heard the case to draft an opinion.

Oral arguments were heard regarding Black Lives Matter protesters arrested and jailed beyond 48 hours after a 2020 demonstration in Rockford.

Karsten Koch, 34, has been living with his parents in Nashotah, but he would like to move out to his own place in Hartland to be closer to his job but not too far from family. Hartlands police chief has warned Koch hes not welcome, citing the villages moratorium on any more sex offenders living there. In a federal lawsuit, Koch contends that the villages 2018 ordinance, applied retroactively, amounts to an illegal ex post facto law, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.  The "designated of...