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“In hindsight, it is clear that Hoover’s FBI was one of the truest enemies of the civil rights movement and the aspirations of America’s Black citizens.”

LOUIS PRESTA, 71, of Crestwood, pleaded guilty to one count of using a facility in interstate commerce in aid of bribery and official misconduct, and one count of filing a false income tax return.

ANDREW LEE and KIMBERLY A. DYSON worked as Prosthetic Clerks in the Veterans Health Administration Prosthetics Service in Chicago. 

The information charges TAMMY E. MOORE, 54, with one count of wire fraud. Moore will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Rockford on a date to be determined.

On November 7, Sheriff’s Police responded to a call of shots fired on the 1400 block of East 15th Street in Ford Heights.

On the top items on the city attorney's report was an ordinance to approve a text amendment to the Markham zoning code to regulate home occupations in the city was approved.

“The people of Calumet City and Chicago’s South Side have been good to us and our employees. For this we are very grateful.” 

Rush: “The consistent lack of diversity in these fields is a disservice to minority patients all across our nation”

Rush Opening Remarks at Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Supply Chain Solutions for a Clean Energy Economy (Washington, D.C.) — Today, U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.), Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy delivered the following opening remarks at a joint Subcommittee on Energy and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, "Securing America's Future: Supply Chain Solutions for a Clean Energy Economy."

the results of the Regional Mapping Workshops will inform a statewide vision of what a behavioral health continuum of care with multiple diversion pathways should look like in Illinois and lead to development of a plan and pilot projects to improve court and community responses to mental health and co-occurring disorders.