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The Illinois Department of Corrections continues to flounder in its efforts to care for inmates with mental illness, according to a new report by the court-appointed monitor on a 2016 lawsuit settlement. Some prison facilities main a "culture of abuse and retaliation" against mentally ill offenders, the report states.
Physicians across the country have a message for the National Rifle Association: Gun violence is our concern.
Illinois prison inmates will continue to pay $5 for medical and dental visits, after the legislature tried and failed to get rid of the fee last week.
On The 21st: A new development on the story of unpaid debt from parking tickets, which, it turns out, disproportionately affected communities of color in Chicago. After ProPublica investigated the issue, the city is now dismissing about 23,000 tickets. Plus, dozens of people have been injured in that town after it was hit by a tornado this past weekend. We’ll get an update from local officials on the ground. But first, a number of states are suing the federal government to keep the citizenship question off the 2020 census. We’ll talk about what’s at stake for Illinois in the next census.
Prairie politicians didn't let challenges, like rules, get in their way, historians say.
