Exploring the Data on Cook County Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Programs
With new data released by the Office of the Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court earlier this year…
Update (May 24, 2022): The Cook County Finance Committee held a special meeting on the elected officials’ salary ordinance and approved the salary increases laid out in…
Click here for a PDF of this issue brief. This post presents information on residential and commercial effective property tax…
The Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County saw a change in leadership for the first time in 20 years in 2020. The change in administration presented an opportunity for meaningful reform of an office that had been notorious…
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was signed into law on March 11, 2021 and provides for $350 billion in funding for eligible state, local,…
In less than a year from this writing, money will no longer be a factor in pretrial release decisions pertaining to defendants accused of committing crimes in Illinois. The elimination of cash bail was one of the major reforms in a…
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Lincoln Institute) released last week an evaluation of common property tax relief programs…