In October, Judge Thomas Nowinski allowed Constantin Beldie to be released on electronic monitoring, despite a request from prosecutors that he remain in prison because they deemed him a risk to ...

ICE purchased more than $20 million worth of mobile surveillance tools just months before the election of a president who has vowed to undertake the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.

The chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County is speaking out, after a deadly stabbing last month prompted new calls to change how domestic violence cases are handled in the county. Chief Judge ...

Judges are spending more time on initial court hearings as they weigh whether to detain or release defendants. However, ...

Judge Thomas Nowinski on Oct. 9 denied a Cook County prosecutor’s petition to detain Constantin Beldie, 57, on accusations that he threw her to the ground and held her in his car, finding that ...

A Cook County judge who made a controversial decision to release a man on electronic monitoring weeks before he killed his ...

Mendoza is speaking out following the decision by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans to move Judge Thomas Nowinski off cases involving domestic violence or orders of protection after anonymous ...

Judge Thomas E. Nowinski isn't hearing domestic violence cases due to threats, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans said ...

Judge Thomas E. Nowinski released a man who allegedly went on to fatally stab his wife in Portage Park and denied an ...