The southbound lanes of I-57 are closed after a fatal crash early Sunday morning near Vollmer Road in south suburban Country Club Hills. According to Illinois State Police, troopers responded to the scene just after 4 a.

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.

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.

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.

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.