A circuit court judge ruled this week that Cook County had misspent hundreds of millions of transportation dollars, a win for the trade association representing construction firms statewide. Judge ...

Weeks after two lawyer groups urged his removal over a blog post on a conservative opinion site, the Illinois Supreme Court vacated retired Judge James R. Brown’s temporary assignment to the Cook ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. — The Circuit Court of Cook County has announced that it is issuing refunds after discovering a technical issue that prevented some overpayments of court-ordered probation and ...

The clerk for Cook County Circuit Court is one of the most widely used offices. And one of the most scandal-plagued. Clerk Mariyana Spyropoulos is working to reverse that reputation by championing ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The new chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court was installed Monday morning. The Honorable Charles S. Beach II took the oath during a packed ceremony inside the Chicago-Kent ...

Judge Tyria Walton vacated a 2003 conviction and ordered Antonio Porter released on electronic monitoring pending retrial.

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

After 24 years as chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, Judge Timothy Evans lost his bid for a new term this week. Circuit court judges voted Wednesday to elect Judge Charles Beach as the new ...

A group of graduates is getting a chance at a new beginning as they start their sobriety journey. They just graduated from a Cook County Circuit Court Drug Treatment Program. For Eli Saul Mercado, 51, ...