Joseph Czuba, who was sentenced for the 2023 hate-crime murder of a young Palestinian American boy has died in prison, authorities said.

The crime numbers are shaping up to be the story of the summer in the city. Through this past weekend, homicides are down 30% from the same time period last year in Chicago.

Sharone Mitchell Jr., chief public defender in Illinois' Cook County, tells “Morning in America” that blaming cashless bail for crime rates is a “completely preposterous position.” He says that in the two years since Illinois eliminated cashless bail,

ICE agents arrested Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez in Chicago after he was released from custody despite being charged with concealing the decapitated body of missing woman Megan Bos.

At about 1:15 p.m. Saturday, Madison officers responded to a shots fired call and found a man laying dead in the intersection of Washington and Wayne Lanter avenues in Madison.

On Feb. 5, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a relatively terse 23-page complaint accusing the combined governments and officials of violating the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit alleged the "so-called" sanctuary policies at issue provide non-citizens "safe havens from federal law enforcement detection."

Data has not determined the impact of cashless bail on crime rates. But experts say it is incorrect to claim that there is an adverse connection.