The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

Jesse Guth, an attorney and former county prosecutor retained by Ulmer’s family, said Ulmer’s family is “shocked and outraged” by his death. “Cory’s family and the people of Cook County deserve no ...

Dying on Dart’s Watch 2023 was the deadliest year in the Cook County Jail on record, with 18 deaths, many of them from drug overdoses. An Injustice Watch investigation found lapses in supervision and ...

Two decades ago, dozens of Black lawyers flooded the courtroom of Cook County’s chief criminal judge in solidarity over what they called prosecutors’ racist treatment of a little-known real estate ...

LaTonya Tate, executive director of the Alabama Justice Initiative, said that many of the prison’s problems boil down to a simple fact: “When you have a culture of promoting bad leadership,” she said, ...

Past and current FOP leaders have made headlines with incendiary comments inflaming already-fraught conversations around police violence, race, and reform—and Black officers have long complained of ...

Soon after Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker took office in 2019, his administration elevated Aunt Martha’s Integrated Care Center on Chicago’s South Side as a model for how Illinois would serve abused foster ...

In the decades since, Black homeowners in Cook County have weathered predatory contract buying, redlining, discriminatory lending practices, the foreclosure crisis, and a property assessment system ...

Despite the concerns, Tyler parlayed the three lucrative Illinois contracts to become a national powerhouse in the field of local government technology. Last year, it reported income of $2.1 billion ...

Five years ago, Latinx politicians were a united front calling for diversity in the judiciary and lambasting then-Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke for appointing a white judge to a ...

When he announced his candidacy for Cook County judge, Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos touted the opportunity to “continue my public service, which spans 23 years.” It’s a career mired in ...

The Tenant Trap An Injustice Watch investigation found thousands of lower-income renters in Chicago are trapped in unsafe buildings, forced to pay rising rents, even as many landlords are allowed to ...