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Law enforcement authorities in Illinois’ Cook County, which includes Chicago, are kept in the dark on the identities of the hundreds of inmates the county has released from its jails during the coronavirus crisis. The story: The cases are held in special coronavirus court hearings but prosecutors have refused to share information on the released prisoners both with The Cook County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, and Chicago Police Department, according to The Washington Times. “The greatest fear people have is the fear of the unknown,” said, Kevin Graham, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, in a...

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is not going to resign. She’s going to run. Last month, Foxx plunged into a white-hot controversy when her office dropped all charges against the actor Jussie Smollett, accused of staging a fake assault and claiming he was the victim of a hate crime. The venom leveled at Foxx is not about Jussie Smollett. It’s about taking down the first African American woman to serve as the county’s top prosecutor, and about her efforts to bring justice and equity to communities of color. Her law enforcement critics, mostly white men, say Foxx is soft...