When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime or had a warrant issued for her arrest. It ...

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 ...

Thousands of people come through Chicago’s immigration court every day to plead their cases before a judge who will decide whether they can stay or be deported. It’s an uphill battle for noncitizens ...

Injustice Watch wrapped up its workshop series Know Your Building, Know Your Landlord last month, with nearly 100 people attending to learn how to find building code violations and research who owns ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Cook County Circuit Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman was reassigned from her post in the pretrial ...

Investigative reporting doesn’t always make a measurable impact, and reverberations often come long after stories are published. That wasn’t true for Injustice Watch this year. Our work in 2024 led to ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore, chair of the board’s criminal justice committee (left), is ...

As the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board investigates powerful Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr. for claiming improper property tax exemptions in another county, an Injustice Watch examination ...

For the third time in the past four elections, voters removed a Cook County judge from the bench — something which hadn’t happened in the previous three decades. Judge Shannon O’Malley, 62, a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Woodlawn and South Shore residents at a 2023 press conference outside the Chicago City Hall in ...

Embattled Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright was referred to a state disciplinary board on Wednesday by the chief judge after an Injustice Watch investigation found he took inappropriate homestead ...

Fresh flowers on the bench of Cook County Circuit Judge Joanne Rosado at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse change frequently. Credit: Courtroom sketch by Verónica Martinez The second floor of Cook ...