Gov. J.B. Pritzker was on Michigan Avenue’s Gold Coast Friday — the site of repeated smash-and-grab robberies — to sign into law a bill that takes aim at such crimes.
House Bill 1091 codifies into state statute “Organized Retail Theft” and creates greater penalties for ringleaders, safeguards that make it harder for stolen goods to be sold anonymously online and allows criminal cases that extend across county lines to be consolidated and prosecuted in one county.
