The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

Jesse Guth, an attorney and former county prosecutor retained by Ulmer’s family, said Ulmer’s family is “shocked and outraged” by his death. “Cory’s family and the people of Cook County deserve no ...

Dying on Dart’s Watch 2023 was the deadliest year in the Cook County Jail on record, with 18 deaths, many of them from drug overdoses. An Injustice Watch investigation found lapses in supervision and ...

Among the original 15 subcircuits, four had been drawn with a majority-Black population and two — the 14th Subcircuit on the Southwest Side of Chicago and the 6th Subcircuit on the Northwest Side — ...

2023 was the deadliest year at the Cook County Jail in decades More people died last year than in any year since 2013, when the jail population was twice as high. As a percentage of the jail’s average ...

Injustice Watch reviewed Brian’s personnel file and found a career full of accolades — and consistent complaints about his conduct in the workplace and in the community, including two sustained ...

This article is the first in a series detailing problems in Alabama’s prisons. It is co-published with BuzzFeed News. Montgomery, Ala.–An Alabama prisoner died weeks after he was allegedly beaten by a ...

MIAMI—Facing the threat of prison, Andrés Arias Leiva fled his native Colombia for the United States in 2014, contending that the criminal case against him was baseless, a political case brought by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...