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Across Illinois, police, sheriffs, and even prosecutors have helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office — despite a state ...
This story was produced in partnership with WIRED. Rolando Perez Samayoa had come to the United States in 2023 seeking safety. Fleeing violence in Mexico, he’d first planned to make a life in Alabama ...
Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices ...
Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices ...
Ruby L. Bailey, a nonprofit and journalism leader with more than three decades of experience in public-service media, is joining Injustice Watch as its new executive director on Sept. 1. Bailey joins ...
When local prosecutors might have political or personal ties to a defendant, the state brings in an elite squad of government attorneys: the Illinois Special Prosecution Unit. They are supposed to be ...
Curtis Lovelace was walking out of his law office in downtown Quincy, Illinois, when he spotted the stranger waiting by his car. “I recognized him to be a police officer,” Lovelace recalled about the ...
The former assistant state’s attorney charged with murder. The judge caught driving drunk. The clerk accused of skimming government funds. When local prosecutors might have political or personal ties ...
The office of Illinois' State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, which houses the Special Prosecution Unit, in downtown Springfield. Credit: Jerry Nowicki / Capital News Illinois Illinois law provides ...
On a cool September night in 2014, 18-year-old Pietro Mautino sped down a rural county road about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, his friend at the wheel of his bronze Kia sedan. The headlights were ...
David and Robin Swaziek at their home on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Their daughter, Megan Wells, 31, was killed in June 2016 when local pharmacist Marc Mongan crashed his speedboat into the pontoon she ...
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