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White Judge Keeps Job After Sending Colleague Racist 'Joke' Showing Black Child Wearing 'My First Ankle Monitor'

The newly elected judge served a public defender on homicide cases for more than 20 years in Illinois' largest county.

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Illinois man reportedly died after being beaten by guards while handcuffed

Cory Ulmer, 41, died following arrest at Cook county jail, which authorities tried to portray as a ‘medical emergency’

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Former Citi VP in Chicago charged with elder fraud

Helen Caldwell, whose actions were spotlighted in an Injustice Watch investigation published by the Sun-Times, is charged with bilking $1.5 million by steering elderly banking clients to invest in her side deals producing slasher movies.

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Dying, disabled prisoners stay behind bars, despite Illinois law calling for medical release

Terminally ill or medically incapacitated prisoners can apply for early release. But the Illinois Prisoner Review Board has denied twice as many requests as it OK’d — and seven prisoners died months after their applications were rejected, an Injustice Watch / WBEZ investigation found.

Chicago Sun-Times

Protect seniors from real-life horror show of financial exploitation

In one case, a Citi — or Citibank — executive allegedly used the sheen and reputation of a respected business to fleece her victims with a movie-making scam.

Chicago Sun-Times

Citi VP, wealth adviser in Chicago accused of steering older clients into money-losing film projects

Helen Grace Caldwell also made horror films — and, the Cook County public guardian’s office says in a lawsuit, solicited older bank clients to put money into her side movie projects.

Chicago Sun-Times

How Illinois’ safety net to protect the elderly from financial exploitation is falling short

Paul Borik, 91, who worked as a Chicago Park District horticulturalist at the Garfield Park Conservatory, is among those the state’s safety net increasingly is failing to protect, an Injustice Watch investigation has found.

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The mental toll on guaranteed income pilot applicants, mayoral candidates’ last push and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

DCFS blocking undocumented survivors of child abuse from applying for visas allowing them to stay in U.S.

The Illinois child-welfare agency for years has refused to issue “U visa” certifications to survivors of child abuse despite a law mandating that it must decide whether they qualify within 90 business days after they apply.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County juvenile jail is locking kids, teens in their cells for most of the day, scathing review finds

The retired child psychologist Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans named to head the committee that issued the report criticizes Evans for not moving swiftly to make changes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s undocumented seniors face slim and dangerous housing options

CHICAGO — In the three days before Lilia had to vacate her basement apartment last summer, she cried herself to sleep each night. Her husband, Cipriano, 70, was in a hospital bed recovering from an emergency amputation of his left foot due to gangrene complications. But their landlords of more…

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