Caitlyn Rosen

Chicago

Cook County Courts Reporter at Courthouse News Service

Covering Cook county courts @CourthouseNews. #MizzouMade. She/her. Rts/likes ≠ endorsements. https://t.co/C6bBclnVMG

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Articles

Future for Chicago’s transit system hangs in the balance after budget shortfall

3 weeks ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

Illinois lawmakers failed to address a $771 million hole in the transportation budget before the legislative session ended on Saturday. CHICAGO (CN) — Chicagoland's mass transit authorities face layoffs and service cuts after Illinois lawmakers failed to address a looming fiscal cliff ahead of the end of the legislative session.
Illinois calls on Seventh Circuit to renew public transit gun restrictions

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

Illinois claims that public transit, like Chicago's L train, is a "sensitive place" that is exempted from the Supreme Court's ruling that modern gun regulations must align with historical ones. CHICAGO (CN) — Illinois maintained that the state's gun restrictions on public transit were constitutionally and historically sound to a Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday.
Indiana looks to Seventh Circuit to prevent inmate’s gender affirming surgery

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

CHICAGO (CN) — The Indiana Department of Corrections maintained to a dubious Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday that a lower court shouldn't have greenlighted an inmate's gender affirming surgery. The inmate, Autumn Cordellioné, requested sexual reassignment surgery in 2022 and was subsequently evaluated by a department psychologist who declined to move forward with the surgery. She is currently serving a 55 year sentence for murdering her infant stepdaughter and has been incarcerated since 2002.
DOJ to investigate Chicago’s hiring practices following mayor’s comments

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

The Department of Justice announced the investigation one day after Johnson spoke at a South Side church and boasted about the diversity in his administration. CHICAGO (CN) — The Department of Justice is investigating the city of Chicago for what it described as discriminatory hiring practices in a letter addressed to the mayor, which was shared to social media Monday afternoon.
Chicago sues Department of Homeland Security over counterterrorism program cuts

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

CHICAGO (CN) — The city of Chicago says in a Friday lawsuit that the Department of Homeland Security acted beyond its legal authority after it cut funding to the city’s counterterrorism program. “The actions taken by the federal government are unconstitutional. The United States Constitution assigns the responsibility to enact laws and appropriate funds, while requiring the president to execute those laws,” Mary Richardson-Lowry, Chicago’s chief corporation counsel, said in an emailed statement.
Illinois man tells 7th Circuit he intended to defraud - not bribe - FBI plant

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

CHICAGO (CN) — A former building inspector reiterated to a Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday that his corruption conviction should be overturned because of an unconstitutionally vague law. In 2023, a federal jury found Lester Crowder guilty on five counts of using a facility in interstate commerce — his cellphone — to violate the Illinois bribery statute. He appealed his conviction in 2024, and cited ambiguity with the statute as a reason for his conviction to be vacated.
Indiana looks to skeptical Seventh Circuit to maintain police buffer law

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

CHICAGO (CN) — An Indiana law that allows police to prohibit people from coming within 25 feet of them if they are engaged in official duties was met by a trepidatious Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday morning. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Indiana Broadcasters Association, the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Indianapolis Star and Nextstar Media challenged the law on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds after its initial passage in 2023.
Chicagoans react to their homegrown pope

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

CHICAGO (CN) — Forget about "Da Bears" — Chicago has a new mascot: "Da Pope."Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old who grew up in the southwest Chicago suburbs, was the first North American selected for the papacy on Thursday. He took the name Pope Leo XIV and succeeded Pope Francis, who died in April. When a billow of white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, the excitement in Rome was palpable.
DOJ accuses Illinois of interfering with federal immigration policy via workplace privacy law

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

The government says the Illinois workplace privacy law discourages employers to use the federal E-Verify employment eligibility program. CHICAGO (CN) — The Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Labor, its director Jane Flanagan and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul Thursday over a state workplace privacy law it says impedes on federal immigration authority.
July 4 parade shooter sentenced to life in prison without parole

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Caitlyn Rosen

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CN) — A Highland Park man convicted of a mass shooting at a suburban Fourth of July parade was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday. Robert Crimo III entered a guilty plea on March 3 in connection to the 2022 parade massacre that left seven people dead and dozens more injured. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to 69 felonies, including 21 counts of murder — three counts for each person killed — and 48 counts of attempted murder.