Injustice Watch compiled a voting guide for the candidates running for judicial seats in Cook County because, despite the powerful role judges play in communities, little independent information is ...

Two of the 77 Cook County judges running for retention in November claim homestead exemptions on Will County houses they have owned for years, Injustice Watch discovered as part of research for its ...

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Editor’s note: This story was updated Tuesday, Jan. 27 to include comments from Judge James Brown. Cook County Circuit Judge James R. Brown has been removed from the bench weeks after his ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

In October, Nayra Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico, filed a wrongful detention lawsuit — known as a habeas corpus petition — at the federal court in Chicago after being detained at a U.S. Immigration ...

Surveillance video from inside the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center shows former guard Kevin Walker leaving a holding cell after he pushed a 15-year-old boy to the floor on Dec. 14, ...

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 ...

Illinois is the last state in the nation to adopt reforms aimed at giving homeowners their fair share of tax sale proceeds. Credit: Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times The Illinois General Assembly is ...

This story was co-produced by Type Investigations, where Irene Romulo is an Ida B. Wells fellow; Cicero Independiente; and Injustice Watch. Illustrations by Veronica Martínez. Leer en Español. Roberto ...

The Illinois Forensic Science Commission, a public body tasked with monitoring practices at the state’s crime labs, sharply criticized the University of Illinois Chicago in a statement last week for ...