For What It's Worth

The Chicago Board of Elections today announced the final results of balloting in the March 17 primary. As FWIW readers will recall all too...

Not a battle royale, but certainly a royal battle: The music of (as Stevie Wonder put it) the King of All, Sir Duke versus the music of th...

The new date for the Illinois Latino Judges Association Spring Fling Social is April 30. This is the revised flyer for the event: Still...

In Part 2 of this two-part series, FWIW continues its look at each individual associate judge finalist. For Part 1 of this series, click he...

Updated 4/2/26 This is Part 1 of a two-part look at the 14 associate judge finalists. For Part 2 of this series, click here . Candidates ...

Friday's post about the announcement of the 14-person associate judge Short List cribbed rather extensively from the OCJ's press re...

It's just about time to wrap up this Election Fortnight, seeing as how the polls closed two weeks ago. Official results will be pos...

The Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Charles S. Beach II and the court’s Nominating Committee today announced the names of 14 candid...

Drop by drop, the election results continue to drip in.... As of the latest update (yesterday at noon), the Chicago Board of Elections r...

At Chief O'Neill's Pub , 3471 N. Elston Ave. I was going to say I'd actually been there... but the website says it's onl...

Ashley Greer Shambley has nosed ahead of Tiffany N. Brooks in the latest update in the race for the 1st Subcircuit Walker vacancy, according...

The Advocates Society will offer dinner and an hour and a half CLE program at their upcoming general meeting, Tuesday, April 7, starting ...

The curtains in the old Chicago voting machines didn't go all the way to the floor, and the only-partially-screened voter might have t...

Tiffany N. Brooks has a 394 vote margin over Ashley Greer Shambley this morning in the very close race for the Walker vacancy in the 1st Sub...

Ashonta C. Rice won a countywide judicial vacancy handily this evening, besting the Democratic Party's officially slated candidate, Judg...

This post will get bumped up to the top of the front page of FWIW frequently in the days leading up to the March 17 priamry. This is the i...

I moderate comments here on FWIW. That means, when a person stumbles across an article here, and is roused to new heights of partisan fury, ...

The Chicago Laborers District Council (LiUNA!) has offered a number of endorsements for next week's primary. The complete list of en...

Not as much as it first seemed: Updated with additional information The Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' and Technical Engineers Local Uni...

The Hellenic Bar Association will hold its 5th Annual Women's Forum on Thursday, March 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the offices of L...

Just last Thursday, I reported on the endorsements issued by the Fraternal Order of Police John Dineen Lodge No. 7. In my post about the ...

The Chicago Council of Lawyers has released the narratives explaining its evaluation of Cook County judicial candidates in the March 17 pri...

The Chicago Council of Lawyers has released the narratives explaining its evaluation of Cook County judicial candidates in the March 17 pri...