An innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys, the St. Louis prosecutor contends in a ...

While youth arrests are way down, Chicago has failed to fix its long-broken approach to providing support for kids who get arrested, lagging far behind mayoral promises and serving only a fraction of ...

This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity. When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

Daniel Colon’s sister, Jamie Colon, holds a middle-school graduation photo of her brother, who died last year in the Cook County Jail. Colon was one of 18 people who died at the jail in 2023, the ...

Paul Borik, 91, a retired Chicago Park District gardner, enjoys his plants at his North suburban senior facility after he lost the bulk of his life savings to a series of fraud schemes. This story is ...

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The Illinois Forensic Science Commission, a public body tasked with monitoring practices at the state’s crime labs, sharply criticized the University of Illinois Chicago in a statement last week for ...

Every two years, Cook County voters go to the polls to elect new judges and decide whether to retain sitting judges. We research every judicial candidate and provide comprehensive, nonpartisan voter ...

Illinois is the last state in the nation to adopt reforms aimed at giving homeowners their fair share of tax sale proceeds. Credit: Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times The Illinois General Assembly is ...

Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit — a squad in the prosecutor’s office set up ...

Black people are now incarcerated in the Cook County Jail at more than 17 times the rate of white people, according to an analysis of jail population and census data by The Circuit. As the number of ...