Warrantless searches draw criticism
Cook County probation officers have for years quietly teamed up with law enforcement to go into probationers' homes without warrants, looking for guns, drugs and information and leading to questionable...
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Chief judge orders outside investigation into Cook County probation department
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans on Wednesday hired a well-known law firm to investigate allegations that the court's probation department has improperly teamed up on searches of probationers' homes...
Ill. Supreme Court issues critical report on Cook Co. court system
The Illinois Supreme Court released a critical and unprecedented report Friday into how Cook County's court system handles criminal suspects, pointing to a lack of leadership and basic understanding of...
Watchdog update: Head of Cook Co. adult probation removed
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans shook up the court's beleaguered adult probation department Monday by removing the agency's longtime head — a change of leadership he said would better...
NU professor faults university’s probe
A Northwestern University professor fighting allegations he sexually attacked a student in 2012 denied he did anything wrong and on Friday accused the university of conducting a "flawed and one-sided...
Ex-Notre Dame player’s remarks reopen wound
Tom Seeberg has always known the name of the Notre Dame football player accused of attacking his daughter, Lizzy, days before she killed herself in 2010. So when he heard...
Ex-Notre Dame player’s remarks reopen wound
Tom Seeberg has always known the name of the Notre Dame football player accused of attacking his daughter, Lizzy, days before she killed herself in 2010. So when he heard...
Northwestern says it took sex allegations seriously
Northwestern University on Friday disputed a student's account that the school mishandled her allegations that a professor sexually attacked her in 2012, saying it took the matter seriously, conducted a...
Lawyer: George, other cardinals ‘complicit’ in deceiving public about priest sex abuse
A lawyer for victims of priest sex abuse charged Tuesday that Cardinal Francis George and his predecessors were "complicit" in deceiving the public, parishioners and law enforcement about child-molesting priests...
Papers detail decades of sex abuse by priests
Thousands of pages of secret church documents released Tuesday as part of a court settlement provide an unprecedented and gut-wrenching look at how the Archdiocese of Chicago for years failed...