For What It's Worth

Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans has announced a program to assist struggling homeowners facing foreclosure. Accor...

In his Friday column in the Chicago Tribune , John Kass wrote about anonymous, malicious Internet trolls. He wasn't writing about the ...

As Connecticut's Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz explains and defends that state's election laws. But Bysiewicz wants a new job ...

Six weeks after the polls closed, the race for the Otaka vacancy in the 9th Subcircuit is finally over. In an article appearing on the Evans...

The cancellation of the South Side St. Patrick's Day Parade undoubtedly contributed to the heightened interest paid to this year's N...

The Chicago Tribune reports today that the Illinois General Assembly has approved and sent to Governor Quinn for signature a bill that will...

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed CTA attorney Arthur P. Wheatley to the bench, filling a 7th Subcircuit vacancy created by the reti...

A recognizable Irish surname conferred a significant advantage on Cook County judicial candidates in the primary campaign just concluded but...

The Evanston Review is reporting that Abbey Fishman-Romanek has filed a request with the office of Cook County Clerk David Orr seeking a r...

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Deborah J. Gubin to the 8th Subcircuit vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Maureen Durkin R...

Democratic Party Endorsements. As has been pointed out elsewhere, only one Appellate Court candidate slated by the Cook County Democratic ...

Back in November, I wrote about how Cook County judges were routinely dismissing speeding tickets based on "high-tech LIDAR speed dete...

Except, of course, that what we're all looking at this afternoon isn't necessarily final -- and that's without even broaching t...

From the Cook County Public Defenders Blog : The local is very proud to announce (unofficially) that several of its members have been electe...

My thanks to Christopher Bonjean, Director of Member Communications for the Illinois State Bar Association, for this link to judicial result...

Most of the other judicial contests in Cook County were settled at a fairly decent hour yesterday (scroll down the page for results) but one...

Most of the other judicial contests in Cook County were settled at a fairly decent hour yesterday (scroll down the page for results) but, wh...

Maureen Masterson Pulia is the apparent winner tonight of the Republican nomination for the countywide McCarthy vacancy. Pulia beat Michael...

Berland Vacancy -- Judge William H. Hooks tallies big numbers in holding this seat. He was appointed to this vacancy by the Illinois Supre...

In the race for the McNulty vacancy, Judge James R. Epstein has emerged the apparent victor. Judge Aurelia Pucinski, the former Circuit Cou...

Olympia Fields Mayor Linzey D. Jones has won the race for Lipinski vacancy in Cook County's 15th Judicial Subcircuit. Pat Flanagan and ...

One of the three races in Cook County's 3rd Judicial Subcircuit looks extremely close: Only 19 votes separate Judge Edward Harmening fr...

Judge Thaddeus Wilson will apparently hold onto the Coleman vacancy in Cook County's 1st Judicial Subcircuit, the seat to which he was a...

Only 1456 votes separate Steven James "Steve" Bernstein, who is leading in the race for the 9th Subcircuit "A" vacancy, ...

I've been reporting all evening that Russell W. Hartigan was holding a lead over slated candidate Sandra G. Ramos in the race for the co...

The surprise of the evening so far: Susan Kennedy Sullivan's early lead over slated candidate Linda J. Pauel is holding up. With 86.51% ...

My thanks to Kulmeet Galhotra for providing me with a much better link into the Chicago Board of Elections website. It's much better be...

I keep saying suburban results because the City site is not showing ANY results in judicial races yet -- even though someone said on CLTV ah...

With 161 of 185 suburban precincts reporting, Judge Geary W. Kull is leading Abbey Fishman Romanek, 36.93% to 31.38% in the race for the Ota...

Here are the current leaders in judicial races. Appellate Court McNulty Vacany -- Judge Jim Epstein O'Malley Vacancy -- Judge Aurelia ...

Olympia Fields Mayor Linzey D. Jones is leading in the race for the Lipinski vacancy. Closest at the moment are Pat Flanagan and Nicholas W...

City website still loading... maybe... But the County website has refreshed. Now nearly 32% of the suburban Cook County vote is in. Here are...

Hayes vacancy Judge Raymond W. Mitchell has a narrow lead in early returns over Bonnie McGrath. These are suburban returns, with only about...

Berland Vacancy With just under 18% of the suburban vote reported, Judge William H. Hooks has 46.82% of the vote, Deidre Baumann has 31.36% ...

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I received this list of judicial endorsements made by the Chicago Defender from an anonymous emailer earlier today: For Judge of the Appell...

Updated and corrected, January 31, 2010 I posted last night that the Democratic Party of Evanston endorsed Abbey Fishman Romanek for the Ota...

I had an email this week from Loop attorney Bridget A. Mitchell pointing out that I had not included the endorsements bestowed on her brothe...

I've received a couple of emails from Enrique G. Perez recently about a Meet the Candidates event he is organizing for tomorrow, Januar...

Updated after reading the paper, as is my custom, on the train.... The Chicago Sun-Times is out this morning with its judicial endorsements...