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Hancock: Group challenging Trump’s ballot access in Cook County court hopes for quick decision
SPRINGFIELD – A national voting rights organization is asking a Cook County judge to overturn ... the court quickly reassigned it to a different judge, Tracie Porter. The Trump campaign gave no reason ...
Chief judge takes over electronic monitoring for Cook County, but questions remain about staffing
The Cook County sheriff's office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge ...
Letters: Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s policy ignores judges’ judgment
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s new policy disregards the individualized decisions of Cook County’s ...
Cook County's top prosecutor questions safety of electronic monitoring under chief judge
State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed. Chief Judge Timothy Evans' office has acknowledged it will need more than 150 ...
Gov. JB Pritzker taps Cook County official to run state emergency management agency
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday tapped a Cook County official to run the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and ...
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Cook County’s top prosecutor questions safety of electronic monitoring under chief judge
Cook County’s top prosecutor says she does not believe the chief judge can safely administer ... on O’Neill Burke’s claims. But the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, which supported ...
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Editorial: Eileen O’Neill Burke puts judges on the spot to keep Cook County residents safe
When state lawmakers made Illinois ... judges who weren’t prepared to allow someone so accused to roam free without conditions? Home confinement, monitored electronically by the county, was the answer ...
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Cook County's top prosecutor questions electronic monitoring under chief judge
Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans’ office had no immediate comment. Until last week, the program had been run by the sheriff’s office but it was transferred to the Adult Probation ...
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Cook County's top prosecutor questions safety of electronic monitoring under chief judge
Cook County’s top prosecutor says she does not believe the chief judge can safely administer electronic monitoring and has instructed her lawyers to object every time it is imposed. Judges can ...
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Accused serial killer has detention hearing Monday before Cook County judge
has a detention hearing Monday before a Cook County judge. Antonio Reyes of Chicago is facing five counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder for what were described by Cook ...
Cook County residents can pay overdue moving traffic violations without additional costs during ‘Amnesty Week’
Individuals in Cook County have an opportunity this week to clear overdue moving traffic violation fees without paying ...
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Sheriff to shutter electronic monitoring unit
Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016 ... the judiciary in Illinois is not subject to the state’s open ...