The superintendent of one of the country’s largest juvenile jails is resigning Dec. 1 after a decade-long tenure marked by ...

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Former Juvenile Temporary Detention Center employee Kevin Walker was acquitted last month of charges related to the incident, ...

Former Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center employee Kevin Walker, center, sits at the defense table with his attorneys during his trial on Oct. 31, 2025. He was found not guilty of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Ruth Gudino was reassigned from her post in a domestic violence courtroom in the Markham courthouse. Credit: Eric Allix Rogers, via Flickr (licensed under Creative Commons); ...

In the last two decades, the share of multifamily rental properties in Chicago owned by LLCs has increased fivefold, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of 26 million property records from WBEZ, ...

Cook County Circuit Judge Charles "Charlie" Beach at the Richard. J. Daley Center on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, after he was elected chief judge, defeating 8-term incumbent Timothy Evans. Credit: ...

For the past few months, visual reporter Verónica Martinez has been painting a mural in our office. Headphones on, pants flecked with paint, she stands on a stepladder, breathing life into the 22-by-8 ...