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With a new year ahead, and a new state’s attorney at the helm of the country’s second-largest prosecutors office, 2025 appears poised for more change, even as systemic issues such as gun violence, inequities in the system and the legacy of police torture continue to reverberate through new and old cases.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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At first glance the new Cook County States Attorney is actually trying to do the job but, and it’s a big one, her efforts go against the grain of Preckwinkle, Tim Evans, the elite get out of jail free crowd, democrats, who passed the SAFE T Act. Criminals can’t be held accountable and Ms Burke is standing on thin ice.