With only four Cook County Circuit Court seats open for countywide election in the March 2026 primary, Cook County Democratic Party committee people met ...

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 ...

Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos is running for Cook County judge. Standing in his way is a tarnished track record that experts say calls his credibility into question.

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 ...

Illinois Supreme Court race raises questions about ethnic representation on the highest court and whose experience counts as Latinx.

Cook County officials plan to drastically reduce the size of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, the nation’s largest juvenile jail, long criticized for its inhumane treatment and ineffective ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman was reassigned from her post in the pretrial division and referred to the Judicial Inquiry Board over a text message she allegedly sent containing a ...

Dart, who oversees the jail, sent top deputies to the county board hearing, where family members of those who died offered emotional testimony.

Chicago police are required by law to report every traffic stop. But a new investigation found one-third of traffic stops went unreported.

In the 14th Subcircuit, two judicial candidates with similar upbringings present distinct visions for what community representation on the bench looks like.

An Injustice Watch reporter describes her observations of Cook County criminal court judges during research for our judicial election guide.

As Chicago police have made more gun-possession arrests, prosecutors are using the secretive grand jury process and securing more convictions.