Boy, 16, shot and killed in Des Plaines
A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed Sunday night in Des Plaines, police said. Officers were called to the 1300 block of Perry Street for reports of gunfire around 9:30...
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‘I’m afraid for my son’: Bail denied for man jailed for a decade as troubled case stemming from killing of off-duty cop crawls on
A Cook County judge on Friday denied bail for a man who has been incarcerated for more than 10 years while awaiting trial in the 2011 slaying of an off-duty...
Illinois Supreme Court to hear arguments in March about elimination of cash bail
Cash bail will continue to be utilized in courts throughout Illinois for at least two more months after the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday said it would begin hearing arguments...
Longtime judge, former public defender appointed as interim presiding judge in juvenile court
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans on Thursday announced the appointment of a longtime juvenile judge and former public defender to fill in as presiding judge in juvenile court while...
Court vacates convictions in 1992 murder case connected to disgraced CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara
Standing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building Monday morning fresh from learning that a judge vacated her murder convictions, Madeline Mendoza, who was 16 when she was arrested in connection...
With abolition of cash bail halted, Cook County’s pretrial proceedings continue following old rules
One day after the Illinois Supreme Court paused plans to end cash bail and other major changes to pretrial proceedings, Cook County's judicial system chugged along Sunday in the same...
In always-busy Cook County court, high-profile cases likely to make news in 2023
In 2022 at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail after he was convicted the year before in arguably the most highly publicized...
Illinois Supreme Court halts plans to eliminate cash bail and other pretrial court changes
Just hours before the elimination of cash bail and other pretrial policies were supposed to go into effect, the Illinois Supreme Court on Saturday halted the implementation of the landmark...
‘What Illinois did is really truly on another level’: Despite legal limbo, elimination of cash bail set to take effect Jan. 1
The Illinois criminal justice system is set for a major makeover beginning Sunday, replacing a cash-bail structure with one that requires judges to more carefully weigh who among the accused...
Kankakee County judge finds that elimination of cash bail provision in SAFE-T Act is unconstitutional
A Kankakee County judge has found that a key provision of Illinois' sweeping criminal justice law violates the state constitution, potentially rolling back a controversial measure that would eliminate cash...