For the third time in the past four elections, voters removed a Cook County judge from the bench — something which hadn’t ...

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Daniel Colon’s sister, Jamie Colon, holds a middle-school graduation photo of her brother, who died last year in the Cook County Jail. Colon was one of 18 people who died at the jail in 2023, the ...

Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans Credit: Illustration by Verónica Martinez Tenants who live in substandard housing and face evictions got a boost from Cook County Circuit Court ...

Woodlawn and South Shore residents at a 2023 press conference outside the Chicago City Hall in support of the South Shore Housing Preservation Ordinance. Credit: Sebastián Hidalgo for Injustice Watch ...

Illinois' medical release law was supposed to reduce the “staggering” costs of caring for ailing people in prison and reunite families with frail loved ones. But so far just a few dozen dying and ...

The population of older undocumented immigrants in Illinois is growing exponentially, but public policy has left these seniors behind. A collaboration with the Chicago Tribune, this project explored ...

One Cook County judge was losing his bid to keep his job and two more were in peril as vote-counting continued after Tuesday’s election. Shannon O’Malley — one of two judges facing questions about ...

The Joe Coleman Medical Release Act was expected to have freed hundreds of terminally ill and medically incapacitated prisoners in Illinois by now. But only a few dozen have been released, an ...

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 medical care were at ...