Due to power outages, the Markham Courthouse and Branch 35 & 38 (Pullman - 111th St.) are closed Thursday, June 11, 2026.
2026 News Archive
Illinois State Police Trooper Kevin Bradley recorded the most DUI arrests in the state each year 2022-2024. Defense attorneys say he made arrests without probable cause and faked evidence.
Cook County prosecutors are asking judges to issue warrants for people who were no-shows in traffic court — because they had already been deported.
Richard Chew is joined by Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell, Jr. to discuss what reforming the criminal legal system means and how public defenders help our clients.
Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell helps answer the question: What does real justice look like?
Public defenders told the I-Team "Top Cop" Illinois State Police Trooper Kevin Bradley copied and pasted findings in arrest reports spanning years.
A court general order and new state law have not stopped ICE from increasingly staking out Chicago area courthouses for arrests since February. Sightings of federal agents near court continue this week as “processing” of detainees at Broadview has accelerated.
After he was tortured in El Salvador and one of his family members was killed, M.G. sought refuge in the United States. The Convention Against Torture was supposed to make sure he didn’t go back. But he was deported — and no one has heard from him since.
Cook County Public Defender, Sharone R. Mitchell says the Pretrial Fairness Acts has impacted the clients our office represents.
Federal agents were reportedly spotted at multiple Cook County courthouses in a move community activists are calling a “significant ramp up” of immigration enforcement in and around Chicago. ICE continues to conduct operations that violate due process, and by operating at courthouses in Cook County they are acting in violation of state law.