Unlike other elected officials, the dozens of judges up for retention this year campaign and raise money as a group.
The Illinois Appellate Court has repeatedly overturned and criticized decisions by Judge Ursula Walowski. Two defendants have also been charged with attacking assistant public defenders in her ...
Curtis Lovelace was walking out of his law office in downtown Quincy, Illinois, when he spotted the stranger waiting by his car. “I recognized him to be a police officer,” Lovelace recalled about the ...
David and Robin Swaziek at their home on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Their daughter, Megan Wells, 31, was killed in June 2016 when local pharmacist Marc Mongan crashed his speedboat into the pontoon she ...
For decades, allegations of child abuse and employee misconduct have swirled around Chicago’s juvenile detention center. But on Thursday, a Cook County judge will begin proceedings in a rare trial of ...
Two of the 77 Cook County judges running for retention in November claim homestead exemptions on Will County houses they have owned for years, Injustice Watch discovered as part of research for its ...
Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices ...
Injustice Watch printed 200,000 copies of the judicial voting guide for the upcoming November 3 general election — more than ever before — and is ...
Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices ...
We’re researching the Cook County judges running for another term in November for our judicial election guide. Have something to share? Let us know. Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County ...
Despite its celebrated record of exonerating more people than any comparable unit nationwide, an Injustice Watch investigation found 21 people who were denied relief by the group before flawed ...
We’re researching the Cook County judges running for another term in November for our judicial election guide. Have something to share? Let us know.
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