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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Injustice Watch wrapped up its workshop series Know Your Building, Know Your Landlord last month, with nearly 100 people attending to learn how to find building code violations and research who owns ...

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 ...

Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans Credit: Illustration by Verónica Martinez Tenants who live in substandard housing and face evictions got a boost from Cook County Circuit Court ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Daniel Colon’s sister, Jamie Colon, holds a middle-school graduation photo of her brother, who ...