For What It's Worth

Supreme Court Justice Joy V. Cunningham has announced an application process for three Circuit Court vacancies, one countywide, and one each...

The Chicago Bar Association 's Barristers Big Band will perform at Andy's Jazz Club , 11 E. Hubbard Street, on Monday, December 30...

Drive your DeLorean over to the Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan Ave., for the Chicago Bar Association 's 101st Annual Bar Show, Ba...

Justice P. Scott Neville and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Linda Sackey to the countywide vacancy created by...

Retired Appellate Court Justice Thomas J. O'Brien passed away this past Saturday at the age of 92. First elected to the Circuit Court...

Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis has announced that applications will be accepted for a temporary appointment to an 11th...

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joy V. Cunninghman has announced that applications for temporary appointments to three subcircuit vacancies w...

The Chicago Bar Association has issued a statement condemning threats made against Judge Thomas Nowinski. The statement, posted to X , sta...

A lot of current and former Cook County judges will remember Mike McGowan, if only from their new judge orientations. Mike concluded his ...

HB 5164 has passed the House and, having been reported out of the Senate Executive Committee on a party line vote, stands on the cusp of pa...

If you're looking for something to do tonight, and if the currently falling snow stays pre-shoveled as promised, the Southwest Bar Ass...

The Illinois State Bar Association is soliciting nominations for a host of awards -- not all of which, by their terms, are 'career ac...

FWIW is once again pleased to present a Guest Post by Albert J. Klumpp, a PhD in public policy analysis with a national reputation for exper...

I stopped being an early adapter of technology many years ago when I bought what would today be described as a tablet, but one loaded with M...

Tickets are now on sale for the Illinois Latino Judges Association Holiday Party. The event is set for Thursday, December 12, from 5:30...

In a post last Friday I hope I gave due credit to the anonymous reader who helped me understand how and where detainee votes at the Cook Co...

The Cook County Bar Association holiday party will be held on Thursday, December 12, from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., at The Penthouse Hyde Park ...

The news that President-Elect Donald Trump got a plurality of the votes cast in the precinct wherein the Cook County Jail is located got a...

All retention judges, with one exception, seem to have won new terms in the November election. Judge Shannon O'Malley is the sole excep...

I would guess that most FWIW readers have plenty to be thankful for, at Thanksgiving and throughout the year. Not everyone does. But, e...

The trend had been positive for Judge Shannon O'Malley, but it is no longer so: As of the most recent updates available, O'Malley h...

The election is pretty much over... so it must be holiday season party time. The Illinois Latino Judges Association wants you to know abo...

I got the story from Rich Miller's Capitol Fax . He got it from a Threads post by chi_urbanist. Here's the graphic: Quoting Mi...

The Illinois Supreme Court today appointed Michael Zink to a 20th Subcircuit vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Judge David E. ...

The Illinois Supreme Court today appointed D’Anthony (Tony) Thedford to the countywide vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Paul Kark...

Nothing world-shaking here, but some may find this 'inside baseball' stuff of interest: I'm reporting tonight that all 78 jur...

Judge Shannon O'Malley's retention bid is still uncertain at this hour, but he is the only retention judge in jeopardy. All other j...

It's 60.5% with 90.32% of the votes counted (1166 out of 1291 precincts)... but 60% + 1 is all that is required. Judge E. Kenneth Wrig...

Judges Kathy Flanagan, E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., and Shannon O'Malley are still below the 60% threshhold in City results so far (now nearl...

To be retained for a new term (10 years for Appellate Court justices, 6 years for Circuit Court judges), a retention candidate must receive ...

Tien H. Glaub, the only Republican candidate to run for a countywide Circuit Court seat is down to Judge Pablo F. deCastro by 270,000 votes ...

With over 90% of the votes already counted, 90 minutes after the polls closed, it appears that the Democratic nominees in the four contested...

The Judicial Evaulation Committee of the Chicago Bar Association has announced that it has issued a "Not Recommended" rating on Ju...