A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...
COOK COUNTY, Ill. — The Circuit Court of Cook County has announced that it is issuing refunds after discovering a technical ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since COVID-19 took down regular operations of the nation's second largest court system, thousands of Cook County criminal and civil cases have been put on ice. The ABC7 I-Team has ...
A Chicago lawyer found himself before a judge on Tuesday, not as an attorney, but as a defendant in a murder case, charged ...
More than 800 court service deputies in Cook County, Ill., have voted to join Teamsters Local 700. The unit spans the entirety of Cook County and includes deputies working across 12 locations.
Cook County Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, was the first Chicago-area judge to be shot and killed in more than three ...
When a defendant appearing in court has been jailed for a lengthy period, a color-coded spreadsheet alerts the judge that the case has been dragging. Instead of hearings that last only a minute or two ...
Judge Charles Beach inherits the nation's second-largest unified court system — and it comes with some baggage. The office of the chief judge now manages the pretrial electronic monitoring program.
Robert Payne lost his brother at a young age. The 66-year-old said he “tried to use drugs and everything else (so that) I could not feel and remember what had happened.” He said that when the money ...