Cook County has a long history of false confessions resulting in wrongful convictions. Now there are numbers supporting that claim. According to a report by the National Registry of Exonerations, 95 people were exonerated in Cook County between January 1989 and December of 2013, almost twice as many as the next highest in the country. […]

Author Archives: Rui Kaneya
is investigations editor at The Chicago Reporter.
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The State of the State … of paid sick days
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Fifty years later, underlying conditions persist in the ‘War on Poverty.’
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