One Cook County judge was losing his bid to keep his job and two more were in peril as vote-counting continued after ...

Embattled Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright was referred to a state disciplinary board on Wednesday by the chief judge ...

Two Cook County judges claim homestead exemptions in Will County Two of the 77 Cook County judges running for retention in November claim homestead exemptions on Will County houses they have owned for ...

The second floor of Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the corner of 26th Street and California Avenue is unlike the other floors, weirdly cramped.

Daniel Colon’s sister, Jamie Colon, holds a middle-school graduation photo of her brother, who died last year in the Cook County Jail. Colon was one of 18 people who died at the jail in 2023, the ...

The Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, where Judge E. Kenneth Wright is presiding judge of the first municipal district. Credit: Flickr/chicagocrimescenes Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr., a ...

2023 was the deadliest year in the Cook County Jail on record, with 18 deaths, many of them from drug overdoses. An Injustice Watch investigation found lapses in supervision and medical care were at ...