CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Better Government Association partnered with several other media outlets to produce a data-driven journalism project exploring the Cook County criminal justice system. Casey Toner ...

A Cook County judge heard a motion Monday in a growing legal fight over whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to ...

Last week, Chicago police Officer John Bartholomew was murdered in the line of duty by a seven-time felon on parole who had ...

The contract with BriefCam would speed the county sheriff's response to jail emergencies, the sheriff’s office said. But ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — Ten young adults are ready to start new lives with gainful employment after graduating from the Cook County Criminal Court’s Restorative Justice program. Jonathan Porter ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve's new book has been called an "eye-opening account" of inequities within Cook County, the nation's largest criminal court system. "Crook County: ...

Brown University’s Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve argues that false confessions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy ...

In a shuttered Catholic school with bells tolling in the background, Cook County Judge Beatriz Santiago leaned over her desk and asked the defendant how his GED practice tests were going. “Sometimes I ...