As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are ...

Ever since she got married in 2012, Ashonta C. Rice has used her given name with her friends, her law clients, and even on many public documents. But last month, Cook County elections officials — and ...

Earlier this month, Injustice Watch celebrated its 10th birthday. For the past decade, our reporting has shed light on systemic injustices in the court system, leading to official investigations, ...

This article was co-published by the Chicago Sun-Times. When Cook County’s chief judge announced last year that judges who preside over bail hearings would be required to take financial circumstances ...

Two award-winning veteran journalists, Alejandra Cancino and David Jackson, are joining Injustice Watch as part of our ongoing expansion and growing commitment to investigative journalism. Jackson is ...

Kurt P. Klein of DeKalb County became an associate judge in 1995, and was appointed to an open circuit judge seat in 2001. He won election for a full term the following year, and retired from the ...

DOUGLAS J. SIMPSON Five years after being named a Cook County associate judge in 2005, Simpson participated in an ex parte conversation involving another judge and a business owner whom Simpson had ...

In the 10th subcircuit, which covers parts of far north and northwest Chicago and northwest suburban Cook County, eight candidates are vying for two judicial seats. Once elected, there is no ...

The Illinois Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday on whether a 16-year-old offender’s 50-year sentence without the opportunity for parole violates the state or federal constitutions.

Running for retention Nov. 5, Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr. faces criticism from two prominent bar groups after disclosures of inappropriate tax exemptions he took on a house in Will County. Since the ...

A former Citibank wealth advisor who swindled nearly $1.5 million from elderly clients was sentenced to serve 2 ½ years in prison Wednesday after telling a federal judge she “fell short” in her duty ...

An Injustice Watch investigation found thousands of lower-income renters in Chicago are trapped in unsafe buildings, forced to pay rising rents, even as many landlords are allowed to shirk their ...