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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law, which has since gone into effect, that allows non-citizens to become police officers in Illinois.
The McHenry County state's attorney said he is "disheartened and shocked" by the state's supreme court ruling allowing the SAFE-T Act's end of cash bail provision to go into effect.
The Illinois Supreme Court will release its ruling next week on whether the end of cash bail provision in the SAFE-T Act is constitutional or not.
The ban on "assault weapons" and high-capacity magazines in Illinois was blocked Friday by a federal judge who issued an injunction in a pending lawsuit.
A federal appeals court this week denied a request to halt Illinois' "assault weapons" and high-capacity magazine bans pending an appeal.