Cook County Circuit Judge Charles "Charlie" Beach at the Richard. J. Daley Center on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, after he was elected chief judge, defeating 8-term incumbent Timothy Evans. Credit: ...

In October, Nayra Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico, filed a wrongful detention lawsuit — known as a habeas corpus petition — at the federal court in Chicago after being detained at a U.S. Immigration ...

For the third time in the past four elections, voters removed a Cook County judge from the bench — something which hadn’t happened in the previous three decades. Judge Shannon O’Malley, 62, a ...

Investigative reporting doesn’t always make a measurable impact, and reverberations often come long after stories are published. That wasn’t true for Injustice Watch this year. Our work in 2024 led to ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a bill May 30 to overhaul the state’s tax sale laws, which had been found to be unconstitutional. Credit: Seth Perlman/AP After several rounds of tough negotiations and under ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, at 1100 S. Hamilton Ave. on Chicago’s Near West Side, holds about 200 children on average. Children as young as 10 can be held there, but most ...

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 ...

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 is the last state in the nation to adopt reforms aimed at giving homeowners their fair share of tax sale proceeds. Credit: Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times The Illinois General Assembly is ...