Judge E. Kenneth Wright, who presides over the First Municipal District, and Judge Shannon O’Malley were referred for ...

On Tuesday, voters in Madison County, Illinois, voted in favor of seceding from Cook County, Illinois. Roughly 56% of voters voted in favor of having Madison County in a state independent of Cook ...

The feds' start witness, Fidel Marquez, is on the stand in former House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial.

Embattled Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright was referred to a state disciplinary board on Wednesday by the chief judge ...

Esther Takang reads her ballot before voting at a Chicago Public Library branch in Rogers Park on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share One Cook County judge was losing his ...

In last night’s election results, seven more Illinois counties voted in favor of separating from Cook County and Chicago, ...

Former president Donald Trump won a second term in office, and Democrats won a host of local races in the Chicago area.

One Cook County judge was losing his bid to keep his job and two more were in peril as vote-counting continued after ...

The citizens of seven Illinois counties have voted to consider splitting from the state’s most populous county, Cook County, ...

While most of the action surrounding the Cook County judicial races occurred during the Democratic primary election in March, ...

Kavya Beheraj/Axios While Vice President Harris won Chicago overall in Tuesday's election, President-elect Trump won 101 (of 1,291) precincts that are home to high populations of city workers, Chinese ...

Democrat Eileen O’Neill Burke declared victory over Republican candidate Bob Fioretti less than two hours after the polls closed.