“For 30 years, I wore a badge. Recently, I have observed a coordinated, well-funded misinformation campaign aimed at convincing Americans that automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras, or “Flock cameras,” constitute illegal surveillance. They are not. It is time for someone with real law enforcement experience to state this clearly.”

Robert Reed: “There aren’t enough ominous adjectives to describe what’s happened at a Far South Side funeral chapel, where authorities found 56 bodies improperly stored and decomposed. Abhorrent, horrific, degrading, disrespectful, even blasphemous don’t go far enough to describe what’s occurred, nor do they gauge the lasting impact this catastrophe will have on the

Tyson Foods on Thursday announced it is closing its beef facility in Joslin, Illinois. The closure will impact more than 2,500 workers, according to area politicians.

A state agency under Gov. JB Pritzker’s purview paid a Kansas-based staffing contractor $78.5 million for time its employees spent on standby rather than actually working, part of a broader failure to properly oversee contractor billing, according to a report issued by a state watchdog.