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 ...

The family of a man who died in Cook County Jail last year after he was beaten by guards is suing Sheriff Tom Dart alleging civil rights violations and demanding punitive damages. The 73-page suit ...

As with adults, police must inform children of their rights, including the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. Police departments in Cook County are required to post the Law Office of ...

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 ...

When he announced his candidacy for Cook County judge, Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos touted the opportunity to “continue my public service, which spans 23 years.” It’s a career mired in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watchdogs were able to sound the alarm on the massive increase in traffic stops in Black neighborhoods thanks to the Illinois Traffic Stop Study, a 2003 law that requires law enforcement agencies to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the third time in the past four elections, voters removed a Cook County judge from the bench — something which hadn’t happened in the previous three decades. Judge Shannon O’Malley, 62, a ...

More than 11,000 incarcerated people in Illinois, about one-third of the prison population, have been infected by Covid-19, and 88 people have died, according to the report. But the problems with ...