Juvenile justice advocates are pushing a bill that would largely ban the detention of kids 12 and under.
Illinois allows kids as young as 10 to be put in detention. A bill before the state House could change that.
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Hinsdale Central teen sets up Model UN Academy site to help thousands of students find success
Momin Ahmed’s website instructs youths on how to navigate Model UN, a simulation of the real United Nations in schools around the globe.
Today in Chicago History: Violet Bidwill becomes first female NFL team owner after her husband dies
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 19, according to the Tribune’s archives.
Today in History: Supreme Court rules on spanking schoolchildren
On April 19, 1977, the Supreme Court, in Ingraham v. Wright, ruled 5-4 that even severe spanking of schoolchildren by faculty members did not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
FSU shooting victims include a school employee whose dad was a Cuban exile turned CIA operative
Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at Florida State University.
Israeli strikes kill at least 25 in Gaza and Huckabee makes first appearance as US ambassador
Gaza hospitals say among the dead early Friday were 10 people in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp, including eight from the same house.
The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have
This is playing out as Democrats double down on their defense of Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who was living in Maryland and was mistakenly deported and imprisoned without communication.
Judge blocks Trump administration from enacting passport changes affecting transgender Americans
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.
Detention ordered for South Shore woman accused in fatal stabbing, beating of mute cancer patient
A South Shore woman was ordered held in detention Friday on charges that she fatally stabbed a mute cancer patient inside his apartment, struck him with a plank of wood and tried setting fire to his apartment last fall. Before a judge at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, prosecutors said that surveillance cameras captured Catherine […]
East Chicago church re-enacts annual Way of the Cross procession
Following a two-hour service at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, participants marched through the streets of East Chicago.