Cook County prosecutors seek to unionize in first major drive in decades
A group of assistant state’s attorneys seeks voluntary recognition of a bargaining unit that would represent hundreds of lawyers.
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‘To call this a crime of violence is quite the understatement’: Judge detains two men accused of tying up, killing 63-year-old man
A Cook County judge on Saturday ordered the two men charged in the murder of George Levin to be detained while awaiting trial, calling the Norwood Park home slaying "horrifying."
Cook County state’s attorney to push for prison sentences in machine gun cases
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has directed prosecutors to seek prison sentences in every felony case involving machine gun-type weapons, according to a new policy circulated to her...
Attorneys tussle over alleged wrongful conviction in first Guevara-related case handled under new state’s attorney
In one of the first glimpses into how the new state’s attorney handles alleged wrongful convictions, a Cook County judge on Friday heard closing arguments and said she will decide...
Judge who released Portage Park domestic violence suspect reassigned
Judge Thomas Nowinski will move to traffic court from the Domestic Violence Division after a man he ordered released on electronic monitoring allegedly stabbed his estranged wife to death.
Calling domestic violence ‘unique in nature,’ judge reduces sentence for woman who shot alleged abuser
A judge reduced the prison sentence of a Chicago woman who said she shot and killed her abuser in 2001, shaving off more than three years.
Changes coming to Cook County criminal court in 2025
Within the Cook County legal system, 2024 in many ways marked a shift in approach that will be noticeable in local courtrooms.
Convictions in Hadiya Pendleton slaying to remain overturned after Illinois Supreme Court dismisses appeal
An Illinois appeals court decision that overturned the convictions for a man accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013 will stand after the state's highest court found that...
Two Illinois convicts among 37 whose death sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden
A Chicago podiatrist who fatally shot a patient who was cooperating in a federal fraud probe of his Medicare billings was among 37 people who had their federal death sentences...
Electronic monitoring in Cook County: Officials poised to make changes but few details available
Experts and county stakeholders have long criticized parallel electronic monitoring programs as wasteful, but soon Cook County won't be one of the only jurisdictions in the country that splits resources...