Cook County Circuit Court

Cook County Circuit Court Chief Judge Tim Evans pushed back on criticisms of the county’s electronic monitoring program Thursday, following Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s comments last week faulting the court system as the area contends with an increase in violent crime.

In NBC 5 Investigates, a troubling episode on a school bus involving a child with autism was caught on tape. Phil Rogers reports.

Warning: Details in this story may be disturbing to some. Reader discretion is advised. A troubling episode on a suburban Chicago school bus involving a 9-year-old child with autism is now the subject of a lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court. During that incident, captured on the school bus security camera, the child, Aiden Sanchez, appears to first be…

The Cook County Circuit Court will resume jury trial starting in late March with precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Nine more employees of the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County have tested positive for the coronavirus in the last week, the clerk’s office announced Sunday.

Three more employees of the Office of the Chief Judge of Cook County have tested positive for the coronavirus, the judge’s office announced Wednesday.

The Office of the Chief Judge in Chicago announced Friday that two more employees have tested positive for the coronaviurs.

Four more employees at the Office of the Chief Judge tested positive for COVID-19, the office announced Wednesday.

A Chicago judge tested positive for the coronavirus, the Office of the Chief Judge for the Cook County Circuit Court announced Friday. The office announced that a judge from the Bridgeview Courthouse and an employee at the Adult Probation Department have both tested positive for COVID-19. The adult probation officer works at the Cook County Juvenile Center on the fifth…

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Mauricio Araujo resigned Thursday, according to the Judicial Inquiry Board. His resignation will take effect on Monday. Araujo was facing the possibility of removal from the bench after the Illinois Courts Commission found Tuesday that there was “clear and convincing evidence” that he engaged in a pattern of inappropriate and harassing behavior toward women. The…

The Circuit Court of Cook County is set to postpone most civil and criminal cases another month as a precaution against the COVID-19 pandemic, while continuing to hear new cases and hold emergency hearings.

May 27 briefing: Gov. J.B. Pritzker releases latest coronavirus data for Illinois.

Another employee at the Cook County Circuit Court clerk’s office has tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the overall total to 19.

For the first time in 20 years, voters will soon elect a new clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, the second largest unified court system in the world – and an office that has been plagued by scandal and allegations of both inefficiency and corruption.

A second victim has publicly come forward saying she was sexually assaulted after going to a bar in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

A jury awarded $101 million to the mother of a severely brain-damaged boy who sued a Chicago-area hospital for medical malpractice, but an agreement between the parties cut the amount to $50 million, a lawyer said Tuesday. Attorneys told a Cook County jury that medical staff at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park ignored ultrasound results that indicated the...

Seventeen new lawsuits were filed against the maker of Pam cooking spray Thursday, as victims say they were severely injured when cans exploded in their kitchens.

In a lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court this week, a Chicago investment banker is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman during a vacation on the Italian island of Capri last year.

The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that the Chicago Police Department is improperly withholding public documents involving how police shot and killed 16-year-old Warren Robinson in July 2014. The unanimous decision said documents sought by NBC 5 News “concern the investigation of whether that shooting was justified.”