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The court commenced operation on December 3, 1906. [2] It was seen as the first of its kind in the United States, and a model for many other municipal courts. [2] The creation of the court replaced the city's justice of the peace courts and removed the city from the jurisdiction of the remaining suburban justice of the peace courts in Cook ...
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
Daley Center is the central courthouse, and one of six courthouses for the County One of the Circuit Court's courthouses. The Circuit Court of Cook County is the largest of the 25 circuit courts (trial courts of original and general jurisdiction) in the judiciary of Illinois as well as one of the largest unified court systems in the United States – second only in size to the Superior Court ...
Board of Election Commissioners of Chicago, 394 U.S. 802 (1969), [1] was a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that an Illinois law that denied absentee ballots to inmates awaiting trial did not violate their constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
After the court's ruling in Kalven, Chicago officials intended to comply by releasing the police misconduct records. However, the city then faced a lawsuit from the Fraternal Order of Police, the police union, claiming that releasing misconduct records older than 5 years would violate the union's collective bargaining agreement. [103]
CHICAGO — R. Kelly’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in Chicago’s federal court will stand, an appeals court ruled Friday in a blistering opinion. ... His current release date is ...
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling speaks during a Democratic National Convention security briefing on July 25 in Chicago. The city has created a new court to handle the expected mass ...
Chicago's mayor on Wednesday proposed changes in the way police serve search warrants, the latest move to regain public trust that was damaged when officers stormed into the wrong home and forced ...