Valentina Galvis with her son at their Chicago home in June 2025. Credit: Photo by Sebastián Hidalgo for Injustice Watch This story was published in partnership with The Intercept, a nonprofit news ...

Each day of the 2017 trial brought troubling news about defense attorney Bernard Shelton Jr.’s health. Before jury selection began, Shelton told Cook County Circuit Judge Ursula Walowski he was ...

Unlike other elected officials, the dozens of judges up for retention this year campaign and raise money as a group.

Curtis Lovelace was walking out of his law office in downtown Quincy, Illinois, when he spotted the stranger waiting by his car. “I recognized him to be a police officer,” Lovelace recalled about the ...

David and Robin Swaziek at their home on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Their daughter, Megan Wells, 31, was killed in June 2016 when local pharmacist Marc Mongan crashed his speedboat into the pontoon she ...

Injustice Watch printed 200,000 copies of the judicial voting guide for the upcoming November 3 general election — more than ever before — and is ...

Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices ...

Injustice Watch is excited to announce that veteran journalist David Kidwell and reporter Kelly Garcia are joining our team Jan. 9. Kidwell joins Injustice Watch as our investigations editor, where he ...

We’re researching the Cook County judges running for another term in November for our judicial election guide. Have something to share? Let us know.

Zella Croff, 73, lost her house in south suburban Markham to tax foreclosure in 2023. Credit: Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the ...

In October, Nayra Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico, filed a wrongful detention lawsuit — known as a habeas corpus petition — at the federal court in Chicago after being detained at a U.S. Immigration ...