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Arguments made after rare midtrial appeal halted case against two ex-Cook County assistant state’s ...
Chicago Tribune· 14 hours agoMonths after a rare midtrial appeal halted a case against two former Cook County assistant state’s ...
Chief judge’s office refers allegations to Judicial Inquiry Board after lawyer handcuffed to a chair
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Cook County chief judge’s office has referred allegations made against a Cook County ...
Was Ottawa County’s newest commissioner punished for running?
Michigan Advance via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoDemocrat Chris Kleinjans made headlines last month after winning a special recall election to become...
New state cold case unit hopes to crack 400-plus unsolved deaths in Iowa
The Gazette· 12 hours agoBird announced the creation of a new cold case unit in the Iowa Attorney General’s Office during a...
Daywatch: Attorney handcuffed to chair in Chicago courthouse
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoThe Cook County chief judge’s office has referred allegations made against a Cook County ...
$50M wrongful conviction case highlights decades of Chicago police forced confessions
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNo physical evidence linked the teenagers to the murders. Forensic evidence analyzed in 2009 proved none of the four were connected to the murders, the complaints say, and in 2017 the
7-year-old boy shot, killed on Near West Side
Chicago Sun-Times· 11 hours agoA 7-year-old boy was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon on the Near West Side. Officers responded about 3 p.m. to the 2300 block of West Jackson Boulevard,...
Misinformation is a 'real danger to our democracy.' What can election boards do about it?
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 5 days agoWhen a spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners accidentally misreported mail-in ballot numbers during the Democratic primary for Cook County& ...
Illinois license plate cameras are violating people's constitutional rights, says new suit
Reason.com· 5 days agoThe complaint—filed by two residents of Cook County, Stephanie Scholl and Frank Bednarz, in the U.S....
Rumblings in the Illinois GOP
Politico· 2 days agoAnother take: “Sen. Dave Koehler of Peoria, said the governor’s office can move forward with a closure regardless,” by Capitol News’ Hannah Meisel and Dilpreet ...