Beach will be Cook County’s first new chief judge in 24 years, after defeating eight-term incumbent Timothy Evans.

Incumbent Timothy Evans has served for 24 years, already the longest of any chief judge in Cook County history. Two ...

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This story was reported and produced by Invisible Institute and the Chicago Reader. John Poulos’s past might have prevented him from being hired by the Chicago Police Department — if he had been ...

In their end-of-session dash to pass a state budget, Illinois lawmakers put off consideration of proposed reforms to property tax sales and foreclosures. That leaves Illinois the only remaining state ...

This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity. When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit — a squad in the prosecutor’s office set up ...

Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore, chair of the board’s criminal justice committee (left), is flanked by senior members of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office as they listen to families of ...