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The state also has a long history of regional cultural differences, especially between Chicago and the rest of Illinois, which is referred to as "downstate". While proposals to divide Illinois are not new, the current series of "separation referendums" was prompted by the close 2010 Illinois gubernatorial election , in which the winner, Pat ...
City of Chicago was a civil court case in Cook County, Illinois. In August 2017, a jury awarded Tierney Darden $148 million for damages after a pedestrian shelter at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport collapsed, leaving Darden partially paralyzed. [ 1 ]
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
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Edward Vincent Hanrahan (March 11, 1921 – June 9, 2009) was an American attorney and politician who served as Cook County State's Attorney from 1968 to 1972. Hanrahan had been a prospective successor to Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley.
Ta-Nehisi Coates "The Case for Reparations" is an article written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published in The Atlantic in 2014. The article focuses on redlining and housing discrimination through the eyes of people who have experienced it and the devastating effects it has had on the African-American community.
Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois, 497 U.S. 62 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court decision that held that the First Amendment forbids a government entity from basing its decision to promote, transfer, recall, or hire low-level public employees based upon their party affiliation.