Cook County is at No. 6 on the Americans for Tort Reform Judicial Hellholes list. ATR has been publishing the annual Judicial ...
An Illinois appellate court overturned the murder conviction of ex-professor Wyndham Lathem due to a rights violation.
Illinois and Cook County's minimum wage will soon go up once again. Beginning in 2025, the state and county's minimum wage ...
Judges are spending more time on initial court hearings as they weigh whether to detain or release defendants. However, ...
Though Evanston voters heartily approved a 2022 referendum to adopt ranked choice voting, also called instant runoff voting, ...
Cook County's new state's attorney has announced a change to the county's policy involving the controversial SAFE-T Act.
Cook County’s public health system is launching free doula services for pregnant patients to help reduce health disparities.
However, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board granted Brand parole in ... the Chief Judge's office wrote with regard to calls ...
Why does so much of what gets tossed into those blue recycling bins end up in the trash? CBS News Chicago visited the city's ...
(The Center Square) – The new Cook County state’s attorney is setting policy for pretrial detention and retail thefts.
A new Cook County state’s attorney inherits crime problems aggravated by her predecessor, Kim Foxx. Eileen O’Neill Burke ...
A year into Illinois’ bail reform, more people charged with domestic violence in Cook County have been ordered held pending trial compared to the year prior. And with setting bail no longer an ...