Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modernization is a top priority for the first new chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County in decades. Charles Beach II sat ...

The Illinois Supreme Court brought Judge James R. Brown back to Cook County to address a judge shortage — but two bar groups ...

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new order from Cook County's top judge takes effect Wednesday. Cook County Circuit Chief Judge Timothy Evans is barring civil arrests of people while at county courts. That includes ...

Cook County Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, was the first Chicago-area judge to be shot and killed in more than three ...

A judge in Illinois prohibited civil arrests of court attendees absent a judicial warrant or judicial order on Tuesday. Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans of the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a ...

Judge Charles Beach inherits the nation's second-largest unified court system — and it comes with some baggage. The office of the chief judge now manages the pretrial electronic monitoring program.