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TAKEN: Despite reforms, burden still heavy on owners of seized property

By Karen Liu and Pam Dempsey/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting; | June 10, 2019

The value of the property seized has totaled in hundreds of millions of dollars in property, cash, jewelry and real estate over the last eight years, according to an analysis of Illinois State Police data by the Midwest Center for Investigative Center.

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Taken: Reforms to state civil forfeiture laws still lag, critics say

By Karen Liu and Pam Dempsey/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | June 10, 2019

Increasing lawsuits and allegations of civil right violations prompted the Illinois legislature to pass reforms of civil asset forfeitures that went into effect last year.