Main Chicago-area police training unit may shut down in November

North East Multi-Regional Training will be forced to close mid-November if the state doesn’t pay its share of the costs, said Philip Brankin, the unit’s executive director. The state-funded agency is responsible for training law enforcement personnel across 321 police agencies in the greater Chicago area…Please click here to read Marwa Eltagouri and Dennis Sullivan’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.