The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

In the decades since, Black homeowners in Cook County have weathered predatory contract buying, redlining, discriminatory lending practices, the foreclosure crisis, and a property assessment system ...

For decades, Illinois courts have written themselves out of the state’s Freedom of Information Act. A new bill could change that and bring much-needed transparency to the court system.

Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos is running for Cook County judge. Standing in his way is a tarnished track record that experts say calls his credibility into question.

Cases are near an all-time high, while arrests and prosecutions have plummeted. Meanwhile, many older adults, like 91-year-old Paul Borik, are losing their life savings as social service caseworkers ...

We broke down the data on specific charges and asked experts to explain why racial disparities are increasing in Cook County criminal court.

We interviewed past and present police union presidents, activists, and legal scholars for perspectives about the role FOP leaders have played since the organization established itself in Chicago ...

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 ...

Chicago’s promises to provide counseling, social services instead of court or detention for youthful offenders is late, under-resourced, and run by some contractors with past controversies.

State officials quietly shut down Aunt Martha's Integrated Care Center in June, but allegations of abuse by staffers had apparently been ignored for years.

Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.