Illinois State Police distributed a federal “Be on the Lookout” alert for comedian Ben Palmer over a satirical immigration ...

Zella Croff, 73, lost her house in south suburban Markham to tax foreclosure in 2023. Credit: Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the ...

This story is a collaboration between Injustice Watch and Bolts, a nonprofit publication that covers criminal justice and voting rights in local governments. Renwick Wells and Mickey Mason say Chicago ...

Katharine Keller, an experienced nonprofit fundraising professional, is joining Injustice Watch as its director of development. Keller joins Injustice Watch after three years as the senior manager of ...

Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans Credit: Illustration by Verónica Martinez Tenants who live in substandard housing and face evictions got a boost from Cook County Circuit Court ...

Editor’s note: This story describes preliminary results as they stood the day after the Nov. 5 election. For our report on the final election results, click here. One Cook County judge was losing his ...

This story is the twentieth in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence. In 1986 ...

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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 ...

Tyrece Williams was exonerated in 2025 after he spent about 20 years in prison. He is fighting for a certificate of innocence in hopes of finally feeling free and seeing prosecutors admit they were ...

For decades, allegations of child abuse and employee misconduct have swirled around Chicago’s juvenile detention center. But on Thursday, a Cook County judge will begin proceedings in a rare trial of ...