With changes underway, here are some cases and issues to watch for in 2026: As Chicagoland was roiled this autumn by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, more than 100 people have landed ...

Good morning, Chicago. In 2025, Cook County began the year with a new state’s attorney and ended it with a new chief judge, ushering in another era for one of the largest court systems in the country.

Last week, Gov. Brian P. Kemp appointed Matt Bennett to serve as Superior Court judge for the Alapaha Circuit due to House ...

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...

Last week, new officials were appointed in the Probate Court of Cook County, including Moultrie attorney Hayden Willis.

A program led by Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke will use $1 million in new funding to provide academic and after-school support services to teen boys who otherwise may have been ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is rolling out a tightly focused new experiment on Chicago’s West Side that would let some teenage boys swap pretrial detention for school-based ...

Grave crimes from even the far reaches of Australia’s quietest bush towns have captured the world’s attention in 2025.

The Illinois Supreme Court has been asked to hear a lawsuit challenging where citizens can file constitutional challenges to ...

A months-long manhunt for a Sauk Village fugitive ended quietly in a Bridgeview industrial strip when Cook County deputies ...

A Cook County judge dismissed the Village’s request for an injunction but allowed its main claim about Pekau’s handling of ...

After investigating claims of conflicts of interest in its construction management division, Clark County in August fired the division’s boss, whose wife had benefited from a lucrative county contract ...