A Circuit Court judge ruled this week that Cook County misspent hundreds of millions of transportation dollars, a win for the ...

A Circuit Court judge ruled that Cook County misspent millions of dollars in funding for transportation.

A Cook County Circuit Judge in Illinois rules that Cook County misdirected $243 million in transportation revenues in 2023 that should have gone to transportation infrastructure needs.

Cook County misspent $243 million intended for transportation, handing a victory to the state road-building industry, a judge has ruled. Cook County Judge Alison Conlon’s decision Friday concluded ...

Chief Judge Charles Beach had pledged to overhaul the county’s monitoring system following a high-profile arson attack on a ...

Weekends will see a 24-hour time limit on reporting violations for judicial review starting Feb. 7, and unauthorized absences have been reduced to three hours from the previous 48 hours.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since COVID-19 took down regular operations of the nation's second largest court system, thousands of Cook County criminal and civil cases have been put on ice. The ABC7 I-Team has ...

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.

Weeks after two lawyer groups urged his removal over a blog post on a conservative opinion site, the Illinois Supreme Court vacated retired Judge James R. Brown’s temporary assignment to the Cook ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Cook County chief judge toughened electronic monitoring protocols amid several high-profile cases, ...

Just over a month after Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring ...

The Cook County chief judge’s office has toughened protocols around its electronic monitoring program, making changes in the ...