A circuit court judge ruled this week that Cook County had misspent hundreds of millions of transportation dollars, a win for the trade association representing construction firms statewide. Judge ...

Just over a month after Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Cook County chief judge toughened electronic monitoring protocols amid several high-profile cases, ...

Weekends will see a 24-hour time limit on reporting violations for judicial review starting Feb. 7, and unauthorized absences have been reduced to three hours from the previous 48 hours.

Weeks after two lawyer groups urged his removal over a blog post on a conservative opinion site, the state high court vacated ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since COVID-19 took down regular operations of the nation's second largest court system, thousands of Cook County criminal and civil cases have been put on ice. The ABC7 I-Team has ...

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

When a defendant appearing in court has been jailed for a lengthy period, a color-coded spreadsheet alerts the judge that the case has been dragging. Instead of hearings that last only a minute or two ...

LOMBARD, Ill., Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 800 court service deputies in Cook County, Ill., have voted to join Teamsters Local 700. The unit spans the entirety of Cook County and includes ...

The Cook County chief judge’s office has toughened protocols around its electronic monitoring program, making changes in the ...

Chief Judge Charles Beach had pledged to overhaul the county’s monitoring system following a high-profile arson attack on a ...