Sheila Murphy was a Cook County public defender, a private criminal defense attorney and Cook County’s first female presiding judge.

Wallace "Gator" Bradley says Mark Maxson signed a 2013 contract for help in Maxson's quest for freedom. Now Bradley is in ...

Two men accused of a gruesome murder in Norwood Park are back in jail after appearing inside a Cook County courtroom Saturday ...

Dolton’s mayor returned to a Cook County courtroom Friday after not meeting a judge’s deadline to sign liquor licenses for a ...

"It has become ever more apparent that, to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals," Senior U ...

Demetrius Frazier’s lawyers are hoping that before he is taken to the execution chamber, MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will ask ...

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A 37-year-old Wheeling man is being held at the Cook County jail on sexual assault charges for offenses dating back nearly a decade. A judge Tuesday in Rolling Meadows ordered Alan I. Diaz-Suarez, of ...

She should definitely know better. Cook County judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman was reassigned shortly after winning her first six-year term election for allegedly sharing a fake racist “My First ...