Doherty is being held in a prison facility in Kentucky, according to prison records. Defense attorney Burt Odelson wrote in a ...

Cook County’s fragmented domestic violence court system fails to provide adequate services and protect victims.

At a union hall on Chicago’s South Side, a powerful Democratic Party organization decided who to endorse in the March 17 ...

Francisco Perez “provided significant evidence of wrongdoing by others,” but no charges were brought against those individuals or law firms “due to certain legal and factual factors” beyond his ...

There are candidates in Districts 1, 5 and 8 for the Board of Commissioners, one of the BPU’s at-large slots and the mayor/CEO seat. The two candidates who win next week on Aug. 5 will proceed to the ...

Recent accounts alleging misconduct within Cook County government agencies show the need for a strong inspector general’s ...