Elgin sees fewer issues with homeless population, but it s bracing for evictions
Carleton Rogers Park became a gathering point for much of Elgin s homeless population last year. Police say homeless people have every right to be in the park as long as they are not littering or causing a disturbance. Rick West | Staff Photographer
Downtown Elgin business owners say issues with local homeless people last summer largely subsided by fall. The city s expanded nuisance ordinance and dedicated placement of a police officer in the downtown business area gave law enforcement better tools to create relationships with the homeless population and use arrests only as a last resort.
The Illinois Senate on Thursday passed a measure requiring public schools to include the dangers of “sexting” in sex education coursework and another lifting a ban on people convicted of
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Advocates and survivors of one of Chicago’s most notorious sex abuse cases are urging Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to keep defrocked priest Daniel McCormack locked up.
Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson, who specializes in child sexual abuse cases, called McCormack’s potential release an “imminent and urgent peril” to the public.
“Daniel McCormack as a priest . is a serial predator and has been incarcerated for some years,” Anderson said during a virtual news conference on Thursday. “We do know that he’s [McCormack] already sentenced scores, if not hundreds, of kids to a lifetime of suffering and we have to do everything today to prevent that from happening to others.”