Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Mariyana Spyropoulos' office has launched a new e-ticket pilot program, which allows officers ...

The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.

The Cook County chief judge’s office has toughened protocols around its electronic monitoring program, making changes in the ...

The city of Peoria has filed a lawsuit against Boyd Gaming, the city of East Peoria and the Illinois Gaming Board to block a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Caitlin Tracey's family walked into Cook County court on Tuesday with a grave purpose: To witness their son-in-law's first court hearing, where he faced murder charges for their ...

Four dead as illegal immigrant semi-truck driver plows into Amish van in Indiana Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan, failed to brake while driving on an Indiana highway when a ...

A pilot program in 18 libraries across nine counties trains staff to help residents navigate civil court proceedings, ...

A Chicago man accused of throwing his estranged wife to her death down a South Loop luxury condo stairwell will have a full detention hearing Friday, a Cook County judge ordered, after making a first, ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. — The Circuit Court of Cook County has announced that it is issuing refunds after discovering a technical issue that prevented some overpayments of court-ordered probation and ...

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Public financing helped build KC warehouse to create more industrial jobs. Now, it could instead become an ICE detention facility.

A Macomb Township man pleaded no contest for a Mount Clemens drunken driving crash that killed another man under a deal in ...