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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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 ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

The 77 judges asking Cook County voters to keep them on the bench in November include some with unexplained tax debts, arrest histories, official censures, unflattering reversals by higher courts, and ...

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 ...

Injustice Watch wrapped up its workshop series Know Your Building, Know Your Landlord last month, with nearly 100 people attending to learn how to find building code violations and research who owns ...

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 ...

This story was reported and originally published by Borderless Magazine. Sign up for its newsletter to learn the latest about Chicago’s immigrant communities. With a pile of documents spread out in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Cook County Circuit Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman was reassigned from her post in the pretrial ...

This story is the twenty-fourth in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence. The ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Assistant State's Attorney Risa Lanier gives her closing statement in the murder trial of Shomari ...