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Detainees wait for court appearances in a holding cell at the Cook County Jail in December 2019.

Low-risk inmates begin exiting Cook County Jail amid coronavirus threat

March 20, 2020 at 8:31 p.m.

A number of Cook County Jail detainees — including "serial stowaway" Marilyn Hartman — have been quietly ordered released this week to help relieve jail crowding amid the coronavirus pandemic....

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown in 2019 at the Chicago Board of Elections.

Dorothy Brown blinks on clerks’ hours during court shutdown over coronavirus, as some walk off job

March 20, 2020 at 5:59 p.m.

Court clerks at a Southwest suburban courthouse walked off the job Friday, the culmination of a week of complaints about whether their boss, Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown,...

An Illinois State Police trooper holds drug-related items recovered from a woman's car after she was stopped in Oak Park in 2014.

State crime lab scales back operations amid coronavirus spread, leading to shelving of drug cases

March 20, 2020 at 3:17 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors will be dropping all new drug cases as the coronavirus outbreak has led the state crime lab to reduce its operations to only urgent work involving violent...

The normally bustling Leighton Criminal Court Building at 26th Street and California Avenue in Chicago is largely empty now that courts have closed.

Court building that’s seen it all experiences something new: The sound of silence

March 18, 2020 at 5:59 a.m.

A herd of sheriff's deputies stood watch Tuesday morning in Cook County's biggest criminal courthouse. But the crowds they are usually tasked with wrangling — the scramble of jurors and...

An empty courtroom inside the Cook County Criminal Courts Building in Chicago.

Cook County courts to pause for nearly a month as precaution against coronavirus

March 13, 2020 at 9:33 p.m.

The vast majority of Cook County court operations, both criminal and civil, will be postponed for nearly a month beginning Tuesday as a precaution against coronavirus, the chief judge's office...

Shomari Legghette, 47, gestures as he walks out of the courtroom on Oct. 28, 2020, after being sentenced in the first-degree murder of Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer.

Jury convicts Shomari Legghette of first-degree murder in killing of Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer

March 13, 2020 at 6:47 p.m.

From their initial sprint across Clark Street to the gunshots echoing over the Thompson Center plaza, Cmdr. Paul Bauer and Shomari Legghette's fatal chance encounter lasted only a few moments....

Defense rests without expected testimony from the man accused of killing Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer

March 12, 2020 at 3:05 p.m.

Shomari Legghette's lawyer had promised jurors that the man accused of killing Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer would take the stand and tell them what really happened in the Thompson...

Medical examiner details fatal injuries to police Cmdr. Paul Bauer at trial of man accused of his killing

March 11, 2020 at 6:15 p.m.

Of the seven gunshots that echoed through the Thompson Center plaza one fateful afternoon in 2018, as many as six hit their apparent target: Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer. Cook...

Medical issue delays trial of man accused of killing Cmdr. Paul Bauer

March 9, 2020 at 1:10 p.m.

Testimony has been postponed until Tuesday in the trial of the man accused of killing Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer. Judge Erica Reddick did not specify the cause of the...

Cabbie recounts seeing Loop confrontation between Cmdr. Paul Bauer and the man accused of killing him

March 6, 2020 at 8:03 p.m.

Edin Kulic was driving his cab through the Loop, on the hunt for his next fare, when something dramatic caught his eye: two men dashing across Clark Street, one chasing...

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