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Chicago aldermen fail to repeal Lightfoot’s $80-million speed camera policy

By Patrick Andriesen
07/20/2022
Chicago aldermen lacked the votes to repeal Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s lower speed camera ticketing threshold responsible for nearly $80 million in fines.

TAGS: Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, speed cameras

Chicago speed cameras ticket 3.8 million drivers since Lightfoot cut limits

By Patrick Andriesen
07/19/2022
Chicago’s speed cameras issued 3.8 million tickets since Mayor Lori Lightfoot lowered the threshold before a citation is written. That is like everyone in Chicago getting 1.4 tickets in 16 months.

TAGS: Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, speed cameras

1M Chicago speed camera tickets fail to stop record traffic deaths

By Patrick Andriesen
07/18/2022
Chicago reported more traffic deaths in the first six months of 2022 than in any year since 2017, despite speed cameras issuing over 1 million tickets – as many tickets as Chicago has households. Two-thirds of the fines were for speeding 6-10 mph.

TAGS: Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, speed cameras, ticketing

Lightfoot allies delay speed camera vote

By Dylan Sharkey
06/24/2022
The Chicago City Council blocked a vote to repeal the lower speed camera ticket threshold, responsible for $59 million in tickets last year. Mayor Lori Lightfoot now has until July 20 to save a policy that issued more tickets than Chicago has residents.

TAGS: Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, red light cameras, speed cameras

Lightfoot fights city council effort to limit $59M speed cameras

By Patrick Andriesen
06/17/2022
Chicago aldermen were ready to repeal the lower speed camera tolerance that generated $59 million in fines last year, but the finance committee chairman called off the meeting. Mayor Lori Lightfoot will use the delay to ‘twist peoples’ arms’ and keep the threshold low and lucrative.

TAGS: Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, speed cameras

Experts: highway camera bills on Pritzker’s desk ripe for abuse

By Patrick Andriesen
04/27/2022
Two bills on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk would spend $20 million to add license plate monitoring cameras to 6,600 miles of highways in 22 counties. Civil rights groups fret about abuse. Illinois State Police can’t say they increase safety.

TAGS: Illinois, interstate highway, speed cameras

Lightfoot reacts to record Chicago speed camera tickets with limited relief

By Patrick Andriesen
04/25/2022
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced relief for low-income residents just weeks after an Illinois Policy Institute investigation found her lower threshold for speed camera tickets created more fines in 2021 than Chicago has residents.

TAGS: Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, speed cameras

Illinois House passes bill to scan license plates on highways

By Dylan Sharkey
04/12/2022
The Illinois House approved a law calling for the installation of license plate reading cameras. Big Brother just wants to solve crime.

TAGS: Illinois, interstate highway, license plate recognition camera

House unanimously passes bill to let Illinois parents leave teens home alone

By Dylan Sharkey
03/03/2022
The Illinois House unanimously passed a bill to eliminate the nation’s strictest standard for how old children must be to be left home alone, now set at age 14. The bill lets parents decide when children are responsible enough to briefly be on their own.

TAGS: child abandonment, criminal justice reform, parenting

House bill would eliminate expungement fee for Illinoisans wrongfully arrested, convicted

By Dylan Sharkey
02/18/2022
House bill would eliminate expungement fee for Illinoisans wrongfully arrested, convicted

TAGS: criminal justice reform, expungement, Illinois

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Police union contracts hinder discipline in Illinois’ biggest cities


Both police reform advocates and law enforcement supporters face the same serious obstacle in Illinois: police union contracts include provisions protecting officers from discipline. Those contracts carry more weight than state law.

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CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students

By Ted Dabrowski
05/02/2016

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