The former Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center employee is charged with two felonies for allegedly throwing a boy ...

This story is a collaboration between Injustice Watch and Bolts, a nonprofit publication that covers criminal justice and voting rights in local governments. Renwick Wells and Mickey Mason say Chicago ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Ruth Gudino was reassigned from her post in a domestic violence courtroom in the Markham courthouse. Credit: Eric Allix Rogers, via Flickr (licensed under Creative Commons); ...

In the last two decades, the share of multifamily rental properties in Chicago owned by LLCs has increased fivefold, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of 26 million property records from WBEZ, ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Charles "Charlie" Beach at the Richard. J. Daley Center on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, after he was elected chief judge, defeating 8-term incumbent Timothy Evans. Credit: ...

Chief Judge Timothy Evans has run the Cook County Circuit Court for nearly a quarter-century. For the first time since he took office in 2001, he faces two challengers in his bid for a record ninth ...

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A Cook County Jail screenshot from surveillance camera footage of Cory Ulmer sitting handcuffed in a holding cell about one hour before he died on June 21, 2024. Credit: Illinois State Police report ...

As a fledgling tech contractor looking to build its business in the insular world of Cook County politics, Texas-based Tyler Technologies turned to one of Illinois’ most well-connected lobbyists to ...

Aura Bogado is joining Injustice Watch as a senior reporter. Her work will explore the ways the courts impact immigrants in Chicago and Cook County. Bogado, formerly a senior reporter and producer at ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...