Cook County Board Approves Resolution Requesting Federal Probe Of Homan Square

         Commissioner Richard Boykin’s              resolution          requesting the U.S. Department of Justice investigate Homan Square, an alleged off-the-books detention center operated by the Chicago Police Department,     sailed unanimously through the Cook County Board meeting Wednesday.



    Boykin plans to hand deliver a copy of the resolution to Lynch, along with Illinois U.S. representative Danny Davis. Both Boykin and Davis asked for the     feds to probe the facility when the Guardian broke the story in February 2015. Homan Square is located in Davis’s west-side congressional district.



    “I think it is going to put a lot of pressure on the Justice Department,” Boykin said.



    Silvestri said he voted for the resolution because the language changed from mandating an investigation to requesting one. Boykin’s spokesperson Adam Salzman maintains the resolution always read as a request rather than a mandate.