Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr., a powerful pillar of the judiciary for decades, is facing new scrutiny from the ...

The second floor of Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the corner of 26th Street and California Avenue is unlike the other floors, weirdly cramped.

Two of the 77 Cook County judges running for retention in November claim homestead exemptions on Will County houses they have owned for years, Injustice Watch discovered as part of research for its ...

The 77 judges asking Cook County voters to keep them on the bench in November include some with unexplained tax debts, arrest histories, official censures, unflattering reversals by higher courts, and ...

Leading Illinois Republican lawmakers on Friday asked the state Auditor General to probe state oversight failures at a now-shuttered South Side youth facility where foster children were physically and ...

Nearly two dozen staff members, contractors and community volunteers are distributing copies of our guide to nearly 400 locations throughout Cook County. You can find our guide at libraries, coffee ...

Soon after Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker took office in 2019, his administration elevated Aunt Martha’s Integrated Care Center on Chicago’s South Side as a model for how Illinois would serve abused foster ...

Name-change law used to target women running for judge Ashonta C. Rice’s name was removed from the Cook County ballot under a 2007 law intended to prevent candidates from using name changes to deceive ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Ieshia Gray is under investigation by the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board over her interactions with an attorney in eviction cases last year at the Markham Courthouse. Credit ...

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