CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since COVID-19 took down regular operations of the nation's second largest court system, thousands of Cook County criminal and civil cases have been put on ice. The ABC7 I-Team has ...

Cook County Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, was the first Chicago-area judge to be shot and killed in more than three ...

The Circuit Court of Cook County has announced that it is issuing refunds after discovering a technical issue that prevented ...

A Chicago lawyer found himself before a judge on Tuesday, not as an attorney, but as a defendant in a murder case, charged ...

Judge Charles Beach inherits the nation's second-largest unified court system — and it comes with some baggage. The office of the chief judge now manages the pretrial electronic monitoring program.

When a defendant appearing in court has been jailed for a lengthy period, a color-coded spreadsheet alerts the judge that the case has been dragging. Instead of hearings that last only a minute or two ...

Cook County judges elected Charles "Charlie" Beach as chief judge, ending Timothy Evans’ 24-year tenure. Beach, a circuit judge since 2017 and former defense attorney, will oversee the criminal courts ...

1. Please tell us about yourself, your background and why you believe you are qualified to hold this office. I am an attorney and a longtime advocate for social justice. I have lived in Chicago most ...

After 24 years as chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, Judge Timothy Evans lost his bid for a new term this week. Circuit court judges voted Wednesday to elect Judge Charles Beach as the new ...

Two national gun rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Cook County’s ban on assault-style weapons in hopes that such a decision would overturn similar bans nationally, ...