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 ...

The Cook County sheriff's office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s new policy disregards the individualized decisions of Cook County’s ...

After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A judge ruled Wednesday that former Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas was not due reimbursement of $5,715 in legal fees she spent defending herself against county-launched investigations ...

It could soon get easier to receive mental health support in Cook County. Cook County Health and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Chicago are kicking off a multi-year initiative to expand ...

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 ...