Weeks after two lawyer groups urged his removal over a blog post on a conservative opinion site, the state high court vacated ...

Just over a month after Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring program, changes are being made in an effort to more quickly track down ...

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good morning, Chicago. In 2025, Cook County began the year with a new state’s attorney and ended it with a new chief judge, ...

Judge Tyria Walton vacated a 2003 conviction and ordered Antonio Porter released on electronic monitoring pending retrial.

A Chicago lawyer found himself before a judge on Tuesday, not as an attorney, but as a defendant in a murder case, charged with killing his wife.

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

Judge Charles Beach inherits the nation's second-largest unified court system — and it comes with some baggage. The office of the chief judge now manages the pretrial electronic monitoring program.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve's new book has been called an "eye-opening account" of inequities within Cook County, the nation's largest criminal court system. "Crook County: ...