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A prison walkway at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill on Nov. 15, 2023.

David Olson and Don Stemen: Illinois counties have become less reliant on prison. Can we further improve that?

December 4, 2023 at 3:05 p.m.

The past few years have seen considerable focus placed on people held pretrial in county jails and the potential impact of abolishing cash bail in Illinois. This heated and rhetoric-filled...

Chicago police officers work the scene where three people were shot, one fatally, in the 6600 block of North Clark Street in the Rogers Park neighborhood on Nov. 9, 2022.

David Olson and Don Stemen: Gun violence dominates the news, but is crime out of control in Chicago?

July 10, 2023 at 1:59 p.m.

You don't need to be a social scientist to know that gun violence increased considerably over the past few years in Chicago. Everyone is reminded of this each weekend, when...

MEXICAN KINDNESS

August 20, 2021 at 5:31 p.m.

In the wake of Vicente Fox's victory in the presidential elections in Mexico, much has been written about how his policies might affect Mexican immigration to the United States. Mexican...

ROWAN CASE

August 8, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

The recent incident involving columnist Carl Rowan shooting an alleged trespasser on his property outside of Washington, D.C., is a slap in the face to those of us who legally...

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