Smash-and-grabs: Push for higher penalties, flexibility in prosecuting organized retail theft rings – ABC7 (Chicago)

In 2020, theft accounted for $4 billion in losses to retailers in Illinois. Said House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, "The problem is, it's in Chicago, it's in the suburbs of Chicago and that is under the jurisdiction of the state's attorney of Cook County, who has stuck her head in the sand on one of the worst crime waves that we've seen occurred in the Chicagoland area since the Capone era."