CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Cook County chief judge toughened electronic monitoring protocols amid several high-profile cases, ...

Just over a month after Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring ...

Weeks after two lawyer groups urged his removal over a blog post on a conservative opinion site, the state high court vacated ...

Weekends will see a 24-hour time limit on reporting violations for judicial review starting Feb. 7, and unauthorized absences have been reduced to three hours from the previous 48 hours.

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since COVID-19 took down regular operations of the nation's second largest court system, thousands of Cook County criminal and civil cases have been put on ice. The ABC7 I-Team has ...

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 ...

LOMBARD, Ill., Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 800 court service deputies in Cook County, Ill., have voted to join Teamsters Local 700. The unit spans the entirety of Cook County and includes ...

When a defendant appearing in court has been jailed for a lengthy period, a color-coded spreadsheet alerts the judge that the case has been dragging. Instead of hearings that last only a minute or two ...

Cook County Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, was the first Chicago-area judge to be shot and killed in more than three ...

Chief Judge Charles Beach had pledged to overhaul the county’s monitoring system following a high-profile arson attack on a ...