The family of a man who died in the Cook County Jail over the weekend gathered outside the criminal courthouse Monday morning ...

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

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

One day after he was sworn in, new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach said he is ordering an urgent review of the county's ...

Greg Bishop reviews the status of several challenges to Illinois' gun and magazine ban, including the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Chief Judge Beach is an eight-year veteran of the bench. He took over for former Chief Judge Tim Evans, who served eight terms since 2001. Evans served longer than anyone in the county's modern court ...

Speaking at the City Club of Chicago on Tuesday to mark her first year as the county’s top prosecutor, O’Neill Burke said her ...

Justices Elizabeth Rochford and Mary K. O'Brien said they were impressed by the state's only problem-solving court addressing ...

The gun rights group challenging the law has promised an appeal. The issue could eventually land at the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Republican candidate running to succeed longtime U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the largely suburban 9th District was ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court 's conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of ...

These establishments in Monroe County were inspected between Nov. 10 and 23, according to Pennsylvania Department of ...