For What It's Worth

* Sigh * The Chicago Tribune is upset again this morning about Cook County judges. In a front page article, " Defeated judges find ...

The American Tort Reform Foundation released its annual list of Judicial Hellholes (you can access and download the entire report from that...

Image obtained from GeneCernan.com . At 5:55 p.m. EST on December 14, 1972, Captain Eugene A. Cernan, USN, and Dr. Harrison Schmitt, a ...

In separate orders entered today, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed Lauretta Higgins Wolfson and Gregory Emmett Ahern to vacancies on t...

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Michael B. Hyman has been assigned to the Illinois Appellate Court effective January 8, 2013 according to an...

Updated, corrected and link fixed. Three Cook County Circuit Court judges whose current appointments were about to expire received new app...

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Judge Cynthia Y. Cobbs to the Cook County Circuit Court countywide vacancy created by the retireme...

Judge Lyle The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Judge Freddrenna M. Lyle to the 7th Subcircuit vacancy created by the appointment o...

I'm focusing tonight on three judges who were targeted for defeat by the Chicago Tribune and the vast majority of bar associations (all...

There are only three subcircuit contests, one in the 12th Subcircuit and two in the 4th Subcircuit. In the 12th Subcircuit, with just over...

With nearly two-thirds of the votes counted in the City of Chicago, Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis is far ahead of her Republican cha...

Just under half the judicial retention votes are already counted -- and it's only 8:00p.m. (Modern technology is amazing.) It is a ma...

Scroll down this page or consider any of the following links: Comparing bar evaluations on certain retention candidates ; Chicago Bar Asso...

Jessica A. O'Brien defeated two candidates in the March Primary to claim the Democratic nomination for the countywide Simmons, Jr. vacan...

The Independent Voters of Illinois - Independent Precinct Organization has posted its endorsements for the November election. That's a...

Judge Andrea M. Schleifer is a guest this week on Avy Meyer's North Town News Magazine . With Mr. Meyer's permission, you can watc...

The Illinois Civil Justice League announced in its newsletter today that it has endorsed Democrat Mary Jane Theis for the Illinois Supreme ...

Lisa Ann Marino emerged victorious in March over three other candidates to win the Democratic nomination for the Urso vacancy in the 11th Ju...

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Chicago attorney Daniel J. Kubasiak to the Cook County Circuit Court vacancy created by the recent...

A lot of cynics will insist that all the judges on this year's Cook County retention ballot are "bulletproof" -- completely as...

For this election cycle, the Judicial Performance Commission of Cook County has chosen not to "recommend or not recommend judges for re...

Updated 11/2/12 Updated and bumped up to reflect recommendations made by the Chicago Tribune . There were seven Cook County Circuit Cour...

In an editorial today the Chicago Tribune urges voters to say "no" to six judges seeking retention in office this November. Th...

For some reason, many of you will vote as soon as early voting starts on October 22 or shortly thereafter. I hate to be the one to break i...

Voters attempting to evaluate Cook County judicial retention candidates or candidates in the few contested judicial elections on the ballot ...