Steve Mills

When Cook County prosecutors brought Cleveland Barrett to trial earlier this year for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl, they presented the jury hearing the case testimony...

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas has gone to court to recover nearly $6.6 million in tax revenues that she says was paid in error to Country Club Hills, which allegedly...

The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in a Chicago case, retreated Monday from its view that a criminal defendant's right to confront his accusers requires live trial testimony from the crime...

The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in a Chicago case, retreated Monday from its view that a criminal defendant's right to confront his accusers requires live trial testimony from the crime...

On Tuesday, a state commission set up to investigate claims of police torture will refer its first cases to Cook County's chief judge, beginning to fulfill its mandate to plumb...

CHESTER -- Under an overcast sky just spitting rain, James Kluppelberg walked out of prison Thursday for the first time in nearly a quarter-century and into a world of uncertainty....

For the four years that attorney Justyna Garbaczewska Scalpone handled appeals in Illinois death penalty cases, she worked with a safety net of sorts: a moratorium on executions that former...