New Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach takes office amid firestorm over electronic monitoring

Charles Beach was sworn in on Monday as Cook County's first new chief judge in 24 years, and takes over amid a political ...

Stealing from one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen gets ex-Cook County judge 4 years of probation

Patricia Martin, former presiding judge of the juvenile court's child protection division, bilked a decorated WWII vet out of ...

Cook County’s top prosecutor touts increase in pretrial detention, urges electronic monitoring reform

Reviewing her first year in office, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke defends the increased requests for detention and ...

Seven men charged following drug bust near Cook Co. Sheriff's Office substation in South Loop

The suspects were arrested and charged following an undercover drug bust near the South Loop corridor.

Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin sentenced to probation after stealing from former Tuskegee Airman

Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin on Friday was sentenced to four years probation after she admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly former ...
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Cook County chief judge announces review of electronic monitoring program

The county's top prosecutor also said she'd work with the chief judge to make sure the program works better.
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Porter, Lake report swine flu cases

Thousands of arrests by Trump's crime-fighting task force in Memphis strain crowded jail and courts. Jimmy Cliff, reggae giant and star of landmark film 'The Harder They Come,' dead at 81. One of the ...