The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

Jesse Guth, an attorney and former county prosecutor retained by Ulmer’s family, said Ulmer’s family is “shocked and outraged” by his death. “Cory’s family and the people of Cook County deserve no ...

Dying on Dart’s Watch 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 ...

Off-duty Chicago police officers fill rows of seats to protest the potential parole of an inmate convicted in the 1970 killing of two Chicago officers, at a Prisoner Review Board meeting in June.

Five years ago, Latinx politicians were a united front calling for diversity in the judiciary and lambasting then-Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke for appointing a white judge to a ...

Journalism plays an influential role in uncovering and framing state violence and systemic oppression. But journalists also have a history of stoking the trauma and disrespect suffered by families ...

Despite the powerful role judges play in communities, many voters will ignore many or all of the contests altogether. And if history is a guide, many people who do vote know little about the ...

The investigation found how weakly the landlord-tenant law is enforced by judges, and how common it is for tenants who withhold rent due to lack of repairs to get their leases terminated, receive rent ...

Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit — a squad in the prosecutor’s office set up ...

In the decades since, Black homeowners in Cook County have weathered predatory contract buying, redlining, discriminatory lending practices, the foreclosure crisis, and a property assessment system ...

Wright, 83, has claimed a homestead exemption, a tax break for homeowners who used their property as their home, since 1978 — long before he became a judge, records show. But in 2018, while a sitting ...

Despite the concerns, Tyler parlayed the three lucrative Illinois contracts to become a national powerhouse in the field of local government technology. Last year, it reported income of $2.1 billion ...