When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime or had a warrant issued for her arrest. It ...

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Two of the 77 Cook County judges running for retention in November claim homestead exemptions on Will County houses they have owned for years, Injustice Watch discovered as part of research for its ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and Juvenile Court building on Chicago's Near ...

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 ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Unrequited Innocence project profiled 24 murder cases where courts have sentenced people to ...

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Ever since she got married in 2012, Ashonta C. Rice has used her given name with her friends, her law clients, and even on many public documents. But last month, Cook County elections officials — and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A Chicago Tenants' Movement assembly in July 2021, three months before Illinois' eviction ...