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New hope for Illinois’ mentally ill nursing-home residents
Thousands of psychiatric patients are likely to move out of nursing homes and into community-based settings in the next five years under a landmark legal agreement designed to reshape Illinois' troubled long-term care system. The agreement, expected to...Tags: Substance Abuse, Trials, Nursing Homes, Justice System, Illinois Governor
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Pact to decrease number of mentally ill in nursing homes
A Chicago federal judge has approved a landmark agreement that will enable thousands of people with mental illness currently living in nursing homes to move into community settings that experts say are more appropriate and less expensive.
U.S. District...Tags: Substance Abuse, Trials, Nursing Homes, Justice System, Illinois Governor
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Chicago aldermen balk at drug testing for city employees
Clout StreetChicago aldermen are balking at a proposal to impose random drug tests on all city employees as the American Civil Liberties Union raises questions about whether it would survive a court challenge. A City Council committee that was scheduled to...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Richard F. Mell, Unions, Public Housing, Chicago Housing Authority
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ACLU blasts Chicago's network of cameras
CHICAGO (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois is taking Chicago to task for it's extensive network of at least 10,000 cameras watching over the city. The ACLU says there are major privacy concerns, possible First Amendment issues...Tags: Entertainment, Television, Chicago, American Civil Liberties Union
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Key Loop buildings added to surveillance network
Tribune reporterThe city Public Building Commission approved a plan today to connect three South Loop buildings to the city's extensive surveillance camera network. After chairing the commission for the first time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said it made sense to add the...Tags: Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Energy Saving, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Transit Authority
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Suit challenges state's transgender policy
Tribune reporterLauren Grey is, in all aspects of her life, a woman. Her driver’s license reflects that, as does her name, her Social Security information and her appearance. Still, her Illinois birth certificate says she’s a man. She has requested that...Tags: Trials, Surgery, Evanston, American Civil Liberties Union, Medical Specialization
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Suicides expose safety breakdowns
Sometime before 3:09 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2009, Jamal Miller began to tear the bedsheet in his room at the Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles.
The stocky 16-year-old tied the sheet to a sock and tied the sock around the metal bar at the top of his bunk...Tags: Cheryl Miller, Crimes, Death, Executive Branch, Politics
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Residents rally against CHA drug-testing plan
Tribune reporterRequiring Chicago Housing Authority residents to be drug-tested and making it easier to evict tenants with family members accused of crime is unconstitutional and will backfire, residents said today at a downtown rally. The CHA is proposing to change its...Tags: Substance Abuse, Crimes, Public Housing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rentals
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Daley rejects ACLU call for camera freeze
Clout StPosted by John Byrne at 12:05 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley today rejected a call by the ACLU to stop adding more surveillance cameras in Chicago and to require camera operators to have probable cause before zooming in on people. Reacting...... -
T-shirt ruling tests definition of ‘tolerance’
TribLocal - Naperville » NewsNeuqua Valley High School administrators don’t have the right to keep students silent on the issue of homosexuality, though some 200 students are expected to …... -
Abortion measure draws accusations, T-shirt slogans at Capitol
Clout StPosted by Todd Wilson at 6:45 p.m. SPRINGFIELD --- They wore T-shirts that said “Women are not livestock,” but the abortion legislation they opposed advanced anyway. The House Agriculture and Conservation Committee, which is dominated by... -
Gay adoption restriction at center of Capitol culture clash
Clout StPosted by Ray Long and Manya Brachear at 6:07 p.m. SPRINGFIELD — Gay adoptions emerged today at the center of a Capitol culture clash as lawmakers pushed a measure to ensure faith-based groups could turn away committed same-sex couples who......
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