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

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

Wallace "Gator" Bradley says Mark Maxson signed a 2013 contract for help in Maxson's quest for freedom. Now Bradley is in court trying to get a share of Maxson's legal settlement stemming from the ...

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 ...

Cover of Blind Faith by Patrick Girondi Painting of Sebastian Sherwin by Megan Euker, Character in Blind Faith Douglas Widick - Pape ...

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 ...

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

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 ...