Cook County Probation officers say theres a new pro-arrest policy regarding sexual offenders, which resulted from increased public scrutiny of their department.
The owner of a medical testing laboratory conducting drug tests of probationers in Cook County says the chief probation officer and several judges are pressuring him for data so they can turn negative drug tests into positive onespasses into fails.
The Cook County Adult Probation Department is trying to strong-arm a local drug-testing firm into providing information that could falsely imply probationers have not stayed clean.
Illinois students could soon benefit from scholarship money to help them find a tutor, attend ACT or SAT prep sessions, pay tuition, get special education services or assist with other academic needs. That will happen in Illinois only if Gov. J.B. Pritzker lets the state’s schoolchildren benefit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program, established...