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chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. Los fiscales federales están ampliando el Proyecto Vecindarios Seguros en Chicago, anunciando el miércoles que, por primera vez, las áreas de trenes y el centro de la ciudad estarán cubiertas por el programa contra la violencia. Vecindarios Seguros se lanzó en 2001 bajo la presidencia de George W. Bush para hacer frente a los tiroteos.
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2 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main
Federal prosecutors are expanding Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago, announcing Wednesday that the city’s trains and downtown areas will now be covered by the anti-violence program for the first time. Project Safe Neighborhoods was launched in 2001 under President George W. Bush to crack down on shootings. At the time, the program paid for the hiring of scores of new federal prosecutors and hundreds of state and local prosecutors to concentrate on gun cases across the country.
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chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main |Stephanie Zimmermann
Criminal defendants in Illinois who are mentally ill have often languished behind bars not because they’ve been found guilty of a crime but because they’re waiting to be placed in a state mental hospital. After years of complaints, Illinois lawmakers have taken a step to address that problem with a bill that cleared the General Assembly on Friday with a House vote of 103-13 and now heads to Gov. JB Pritzker.
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wbez.org | Frank Main |Tina Sfondeles |Jon Seidel
The quest to free Chicago drug kingpin Larry Hoover included a stop at Mar-a-Lago. A New York lawyer advocating for Hoover said he spoke with President Donald Trump several months ago at the resort where he lives in Palm Beach, Florida. It was among a series of high-profile meetings between Hoover’s lawyers and Trump and his top aides since 2018. On Wednesday, their years-long advocacy paid off with Trump commuting Hoover’s federal sentence of life in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main |Tina Sfondeles
The quest to free Chicago drug kingpin Larry Hoover included a stop at Mar-a-Lago. A New York lawyer advocating for Hoover says he spoke with President Donald Trump several months ago at the resort where he lives in Palm Beach, Florida. It was among a series of high-profile meetings between Hoover’s lawyers and Trump and his top aides since 2018. On Wednesday, their years-long advocacy paid off with Trump commuting Hoover’s federal sentence of life in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.
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