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

The Illinois Supreme Court brought Judge James R. Brown back to Cook County to address a judge shortage — but two bar groups ...

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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 ...

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This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

Illinois has strengthened its labor laws and improved efforts to collect stolen wages. But hundreds of cases linger in Cook County court, leaving workers waiting years to be fully compensated, an ...