Kara Bland’s 2010 Chevy Malibu still had temporary plates when police seized it for a crime she did not commit. She loaned it to the father of her daughter, who was arrested after picking up someone who had marijuana on him.

For six weeks, Bland took her 6-year-old daughter to school on a Chicago city bus and relatives helped her run errands before a judge released the car on bond. It took a total of nine months to officially regain ownership and cost her $1,000.

Attorneys have filed a federal complaint alleging that the state of Illinois is not fulfilling its commitment to fund disability services as required by a 2011 consent decree, saying that a refusal to increase reimbursement to providers has caused a dramatic deterioration in the care of those with developmental disabilities.

Equip for Equality and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois said in a statement that the state’s decision to freeze the pay of providers for nearly a decade has forced homes and facilities to dramatically reduce the size of their staffs, which has left them unable to do little more than keep residents safe. They say an independent monitor consent decree has found the state has not complied with the 2011 decree for the last two years and are seeking to force the state to do so.

In the fallout from the Laquan McDonald shooting, Mayor Rahm Emanuel trumpeted a new policy requiring that videos of shootings by police be released within three months, calling it a shift toward transparency for a city that long fought to keep evidence of wrongdoing by officers hidden from the public.

Now, a little more than a year later, Emanuel’s top lawyer has agreed for the first time to delay the release of a video of a police shooting beyond the 90-day limit set by the city’s own policy.

Downtown boosters and business owners, construction workers and west side advocates are expected to fill City Council chambers Monday to urge aldermen to approve financial incentives to spur redevelopment of the former Amerock factory into a four-star hotel and conference center.

Among those planning to lobby what has been a skeptical Rockford City Council will be Gary Anderson of Anderson Architects. Anderson said private investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into downtown renewal projects over the last five years. The proposed hotel would be the catalyst that pushes downtown over the edge, he said.

Oliver W. Hamilton finally had his day of reckoning.

Despite his big smile after making his plea deal, despite his text blaming the newspaper and Belleville politics for his plight, despite three changes to his sentencing recommendation: The former East St. Louis Township supervisor will spend five years in the federal pen and then three years being watched after he gets out.

Rebuilding and widening the mammoth Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) is complicated enough given it’s the system’s most-used road, with up to 185,000 cars and trucks clogging it daily.

Throw in a tangle of towns where officials either hate or love the project, plus churn on the tollway board, and the planned redo gets even gnarlier.