In his first month as Cook County’s new chief judge, Charles Beach said he has worked to improve transparency, strengthen ...

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The Cook County sheriff’s office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge amid questions about who will arrest violators and how extra staff will be ...

Cook County’s top prosecutor says she does not believe the chief judge can safely administer electronic monitoring and she has instructed her lawyers to object every time it is imposed against their ...