This project was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune As a fledgling tech contractor looking to build its ...

In their end-of-session dash to pass a state budget, Illinois lawmakers put off consideration of proposed reforms to property ...

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 ...

When he announced his candidacy for Cook County judge, Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos touted the opportunity to “continue my public service, which spans 23 years.” It’s a career mired in ...

Over the last two decades, Chicago’s political leaders have spent tens of millions on attempts to treat children arrested by police more like children and less like a public safety menace. It is part ...

More than 40 prospective candidates for judge presented their credentials to the Cook County Democratic committee on Thursday, seeking the party’s nomination for the June 2022 primary election. Each ...

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 ...

When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime or had a warrant issued for her arrest. It ...

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 ...

Thousands of older adults are set to be released from Illinois prisons in the coming years. Advocates say many of them don’t have the resources or support they need to succeed on the outside. Credit: ...

The illustration above was inspired by a scene from a 2019 protest in which Chicago FOP President John Catanzara waved the pro-police “thin blue line” flag outside the George W. Dunne Cook County ...