The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

In the decades since, Black homeowners in Cook County have weathered predatory contract buying, redlining, discriminatory lending practices, the foreclosure crisis, and a property assessment system ...

Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos is running for Cook County judge. Standing in his way is a tarnished track record that experts say calls his credibility into question.

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

Cook County officials plan to drastically reduce the size of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, the nation’s largest juvenile jail, long criticized for its inhumane treatment and ineffective ...

In the 14th Subcircuit, two judicial candidates with similar upbringings present distinct visions for what community representation on the bench looks like.

As Chicago police have made more gun-possession arrests, prosecutors are using the secretive grand jury process and securing more convictions.

Chicago police are required by law to report every traffic stop. But a new investigation found one-third of traffic stops went unreported.

An Injustice Watch reporter describes her observations of Cook County criminal court judges during research for our judicial election guide.

Despite some judges with tax debts, arrests, and residency questions, the Cook County judicial retention races have drawn little attention.

As the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board investigates powerful Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr. for claiming improper property tax exemptions in another county, an Injustice Watch examination ...

The investigation found how weakly the landlord-tenant law is enforced by judges, and how common it is for tenants who withhold rent due to lack of repairs to get their leases terminated, receive rent ...