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.

We want to hear about your experiences with these Cook County judges Every six years, Cook County circuit judges ask voters for another term on the bench in what’s known as a retention vote. (Illinois ...

Daniel Colon’s sister, Jamie Colon, holds a middle-school graduation photo of her brother, who died last year in the Cook County Jail. Colon was one of 18 people who died at the jail in 2023, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, where Judge E. Kenneth Wright is presiding judge of the first municipal district. Credit: Flickr/chicagocrimescenes Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr., a ...

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 ...

2023 was the deadliest year in the Cook County Jail on record, with 18 deaths, many of them from drug overdoses. An Injustice Watch investigation found lapses in supervision and medical care were at ...

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 ...

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 ...