A Cook County judge on Tuesday ordered pretrial detention for a 66-year-old man from Broadview accused of fatally stabbing a fellow CTA Blue Line train passenger who asked to share his cigarette. In ...

Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of a former dean of a Chicago public high school accused of forming a sexual ...

But I’ve also seen how treatment courts can break it.

Seeking to identify long-term shifts in how the criminal justice system operates in Cook County, Loyola University ...

After a weeks-long, often disorderly trial, jurors deliberated for just an hour and 20 minutes before finding Brand guilty of attacking his ex-partner and killing her son. The 2024 slaying exposed ...

A jury has found Crosetti Brand guilty of stabbing his ex-partner and killing her 11-year-old son. At 4-foot-2 and 99 pounds, 11-year-old Jayden Perkins fought bravely to protect his mother from ...

One of those attorneys, retired Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Mulroy, is now a board member. In response to an open records request for notices, oversight or enforcement actions, the AG’s ...

CHICAGO — A vote for Cook County's next chief judge has spilled out of the halls of justice into the political arena. Only judges are allowed to vote Thursday for chief judge. However, Chicago ...

Judge Thomas E. Nowinski denied the state’s petition, noting that state prosecutors had failed to establish Beldie’s alleged history of violence toward his wife and concluded he was a ...

Cook County Judge Sheila Murphy shows the children’s room she opened at the Markham Courthouse where children can go while their parents are in court, Aug. 11, 1999.

CHICAGOA — A Cook County judge who allowed a man later accused of killing his wife to be released on electronic monitoring will no longer hear domestic violence cases, Chief Judge Timothy Evans ...