Attorney Ava George Stewart, slated for one of the four county-wide judicial vacancies on the 2026 ballot, stands with other candidates as they prepare to give speeches at the slating event. Credit: ...

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 ...

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.

Illinois Supreme Court race raises questions about ethnic representation on the highest court and whose experience counts as Latinx.

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 ...

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

Two of the 77 Cook County judges running for retention in November claim homestead exemptions on Will County houses they have owned for years, Injustice Watch discovered as part of research for its ...

More than 100 students in seven years have signed “gang contracts” for a suspected gang affiliation.

Deidre Baumann has spent more than a decade trying to become a Cook County judge. Here's why she thinks this race, for a seat in the 7th Subcircuit, will be different.

Risa Lanier, second-in-command to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, is running for Cook County judge in the 19th Subcircuit.

Cook County Circuit Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman was reassigned from her post in the pretrial division and referred to the Judicial Inquiry Board over a text message she allegedly sent containing a ...