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

City gives millions to contractor with troubled past The nonprofits include some with spotty records or limited experience. SGA Youth & Family Services won a 2023 city contract to provide youth ...

An innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys, the St. Louis prosecutor contends in a ...

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 ...

The rising racial disparities in the court system have also led to wider disparities in incarceration rates. Black people are now incarcerated in the Cook County Jail at more than 17 times the rate of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Covelli is one of at least 17,000 adults age 50 and older released from Illinois prisons since 2014, according to an Injustice Watch estimate based on state corrections data. And thousands more older ...

Every two years, Cook County voters go to the polls to elect new judges and decide whether to retain sitting judges. We research every judicial candidate and provide comprehensive, nonpartisan voter ...

A monthslong feud between a Woodlawn landlord and his tenants over allegations of unlivable conditions reached a boiling point last week, when a skeptical judge threatened to jail tenants he found to ...

Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit — a squad in the prosecutor’s office set up ...

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 ...