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A librarian’s dream helps turn a waiting area at Cook County Jail into an educational nook for children who visit the incarcerated

CHICAGO — When 2-year-old K.D. walked with his aunt inside the waiting area of the Maximum Security Division at Cook County Jail to visit his father, he smiled.

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Gun rights advocates say assault weapons ban is unconstitutional — local officials say it’s essential

Gun rights advocates, law enforcement deliver more than five hours of testimony before the House judiciary panel as lawmakers debate assault weapons ban.

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Why plans to connect big grocers and small farmers haven’t worked, inflation’s impact on local restaurants and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Sheriff Tom Dart gets Cook County funding for helicopter to track carjackers

The Cook County Board approved $11.4 million Thursday for the sheriff’s office to acquire a helicopter.

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Cook County sheriff seeks drivers’ OK to track vehicles, speed carjacking investigations

Consent would come with theft-deterring “tracked vehicle” stickers for owners to display, Sheriff Tom Dart said.

Chicago Sun-Times

No simple solution to helping voters in jail cast ballots

Each election cycle, thousands of eligible voters are effectively disenfranchised because they sit in a jail cell.

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Nearly 20,000 Cook County residents holding revoked FOID cards — enough to populate a medium-sized suburb

Cook County sheriff’s police told Illinois legislators Thursday that “manpower” issues are the main reason why the revoked cards are still in the hands of potentially dangerous people.

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With domestic violence rising, police must make sure victims are safe from firearms threat

A domestic violence victim is five times more likely to be killed when their abusive partner can get his or her hands on a gun.

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Toni Preckwinkle beats Democratic primary challenger Richard Boykin for Cook County Board president

Preckwinkle said Tuesday night she looks “forward to all the good work that lies ahead” as her opponent, Richard Boykin — a former Cook County Board commissioner — conceded the race: “The voters have spoken, and I stand by their decision.”

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NBA finals Game 6: Golden State Warriors 103-90 Boston Celtics – as it happened

Rolling report: The Golden State Warriors were too good for the Boston Celtics as they wrapped up the finals series 4-2

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Tom Dart, in an about-face, says he’ll comply with judge’s order banning furloughs for defendants on home confinement

The sheriff initially defied Judge Edward Maloney’s order, saying a new law requires the furloughs, but changed his mind after the Sun-Times posted a story Friday about the case.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tom Dart, judge at odds over required 2-day furlough from home confinement for suspects on bail

Dart says he has to give pretrial detainees on home confinement time free of electronic monitoring. Judge Edward Maloney, who ordered a suspect held with no furlough, says sheriff must follow his ruling.

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Dart, legislators want to enlist automakers in curbing carjackings

A proposal announced Wednesday would require automakers to create a hotline that law enforcement can use to find stolen cars.

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Get rid of ‘essential movement’ in electronic monitoring for suspects in violent crimes

Curbing the observation of arrestees who are in a program that is all about monitoring them is irrational and dangerous.

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Defendants on home confinement now get 2 days a week to roam freely, and some are getting in trouble

Since a new provision of the Illinois SAFE-T Act took effect Jan. 1, dozens of people on home confinement in Cook County have been arrested while free of supervision, records show.

Chicago Tribune

Federal investigation targets possible ghost payrolling in Cook County sheriff’s office, sources say

CHICAGO — Federal authorities have launched a criminal probe into alleged ghost-payrolling at the Cook County sheriff’s office involving at least nine sheriff’s employees, including one high-ranking official, sources have told The Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Sun-Times

5 years after Markham courthouse rapes, and still waiting for cameras for holding cells

Sheriff Tom Dart — whose guards were accused of ‘negligence’ for unwittingly ushering two men in to a cell where a woman was being held — wanted better surveillance ‘immediately.’

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