Steele, an outgoing Board of Review commissioner, repeatedly told officers she was an elected official after she caused a ...

Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, ...

The Democratic Cook County Board of Review commissioner lashed out at prosecutors after a judge this week ruled she was “not guilty” in a DUI case.

A Cook County tax official was acquitted of drunken driving Tuesday after a two-day trial that focused on a November 2024 crash in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood and the police response. Board of ...

Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s ...

Chicago Officer John Bartholomew was allegedly killed by a man released under the SAFE-T Act's cashless bail provisions ...

Eight months after a federal immigration agent killed a man in the suburbs during earliest days of “Operation Midway Blitz,” ...

The upcoming federal trial over a wrongful conviction lawsuit filed by Arturo DeLeon-Reyes in many ways promised to be an ...

Certificates of innocence can help exonerated people get jobs and housing. State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is making ...

Cook County prosecutors are contesting most certificates of innocence, keeping exonerees tied up in court and delaying ...