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Attorney General Raoul’s Office Received Nearly $400,000 Department of Justice Grant for Hate Crime Training.

A Cook County sheriffs deputy who was removed from the Democratic primary ballot for Cook County sheriff after the electoral board found she lacked the required law enforcement certification took her fight for reinstatement to court.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — For more than three decades, Marcus Hargrett’s version of getting ready for work included holstering a semiautomatic pistol before reporting to the Cook County Jail. Now retired, Hargrett and thousands of other similarly situated former county sheriff’s officers say a federal law allows them to carry weapons anywhere in the nation.

A federal law allows retired officers to carry concealed weapons anywhere in the nation. But in Illinois, there are rules that preclude ex-correctional officers and court services officers, or bailiffs.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — For more than three decades, Marcus Hargrett’s version of...

The investigation was revealed in a response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the Herald & Review.

The director of a state board that in early 2020 was forced to end a contract with a Democratic activist after his name surfaced in purported government coverups involving a