The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

In the decades since, Black homeowners in Cook County have weathered predatory contract buying, redlining, discriminatory lending practices, the foreclosure crisis, and a property assessment system ...

Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos is running for Cook County judge. Standing in his way is a tarnished track record that experts say calls his credibility into question.

In the 14th Subcircuit, two judicial candidates with similar upbringings present distinct visions for what community representation on the bench looks like.

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 ...

Chicago police are required by law to report every traffic stop. But a new investigation found one-third of traffic stops went unreported.

Illinois Supreme Court race raises questions about ethnic representation on the highest court and whose experience counts as Latinx.

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 ...

Two of the 77 Cook County judges running for retention in November claim homestead exemptions on Will County houses they have owned for years, Injustice Watch discovered as part of research for its ...

The Tenant Trap An Injustice Watch investigation found thousands of lower-income renters in Chicago are trapped in unsafe buildings, forced to pay rising rents, even as many landlords are allowed to ...

In their end-of-session dash to pass a state budget, Illinois lawmakers put off consideration of proposed reforms to property tax sales and foreclosures.

Cook County officials plan to drastically reduce the size of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, the nation’s largest juvenile jail, long criticized for its inhumane treatment and ineffective ...