Illinois budget includes $20M aimed at repairing cuts to sexual assault crisis services ...Middle East

When state lawmakers in Springfield approved a spending plan in the wee hours of the morning this week, it included a $20 million injection of funds meant to shore up federal cuts that led to layoffs and forced rape crisis centers across Illinois to close. Advocates say the lack of available counselors, advocates and rape crisis centers caused by the federal funding cuts last fiscal year led to 1,400 fewer sexual assault victims being provided services. The news of the state funding approval comes less than a week after NBC 5 Investigates’ recent series “DISMISSED” exposed how reported sexual assaults in Chicago rarely led to an arrest and conviction. Of the more than 21,000 sex cr

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