Injustice Watch printed 200,000 copies of the judicial voting guide for the upcoming November 3 general election — more than ever before — and is ...

The Illinois Appellate Court has repeatedly overturned and criticized decisions by Judge Ursula Walowski. Two defendants have also been charged with attacking assistant public defenders in her ...

Zella Croff, 73, lost her house in south suburban Markham to tax foreclosure in 2023. Credit: Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the ...

For decades, allegations of child abuse and employee misconduct have swirled around Chicago’s juvenile detention center. But on Thursday, a Cook County judge will begin proceedings in a rare trial of ...

Every two years, Cook County voters are faced with a hefty list of judges on their ballot whom they will choose to either keep for another term or remove from the bench in what’s known as a judicial ...

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 ...

Attorney Ava George Stewart, slated for one of the four county-wide judicial vacancies on the 2026 ballot, stands with other candidates as they prepare to give speeches at the slating event. Credit: ...

Every six years, Cook County circuit judges ask voters for another term on the bench in what’s known as a retention vote. (Illinois Appellate Court judges run for retention every 10 years.) This ...

We’re researching the Cook County judges running for another term in November for our judicial election guide. Have something to share? Let us know. Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County ...

This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity. When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ...

Daniel Colon’s sister, Jamie Colon, holds a middle-school graduation photo of her brother, who died last year in the Cook County Jail. Colon was one of 18 people who died at the jail in 2023, the ...