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Senior reporter Maya Dukmasova will be speaking about her work at the Mouse Arts and Letters Club this Friday evening 📅 mouseartsandletters.org/events/event...
Looking forward to this conversation with @aliceyin.bsky.social and @ctoner.bsky.social and people interested in Chicago journalism on Friday night!
January 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Senior reporter Maya Dukmasova will be speaking about her work at the Mouse Arts and Letters Club this Friday evening 📅 mouseartsandletters.org/events/event...
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Glad to see a state legislator (Tarver Jr.) is trying to include the judiciary in Illinois' FOIA ilga.gov/Legislation/.... This piece www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2023... from @injusticewatch.org is a great explainer on why this matters.
It’s time to make Illinois courts subject to the public-records law
For decades, Illinois courts have written themselves out of the state’s Freedom of Information Act. A new bill could change that and bring much-needed transparency to the court system.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Glad to see a state legislator (Tarver Jr.) is trying to include the judiciary in Illinois' FOIA ilga.gov/Legislation/.... This piece www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2023... from @injusticewatch.org is a great explainer on why this matters.
This massive transfer of generational wealth from families in Black neighborhoods to affluent investors through Illinois’ property tax foreclosure system has been criticized by housing advocates as yet another racist financial practice. (Published May 2025)
Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure
This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity. When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood
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January 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
This massive transfer of generational wealth from families in Black neighborhoods to affluent investors through Illinois’ property tax foreclosure system has been criticized by housing advocates as yet another racist financial practice. (Published May 2025)
📻 Senior reporter Alejandra Cancino is a guest on the latest episode of WGN's Outside the Loop Radio, discussing her reporting on wage theft in Cook County — and how workers are impacted. buff.ly/mt75GHo
OTL #1,004: Wage theft in Illinois, A look at the state’s fiscal health
Mike Stephen talks to Injustice Watch senior investigative reporter Alejandra Cancino to learn how wage theft of workers continues in Illinois and then gets the lowdown on a new report that examine…
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January 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
📻 Senior reporter Alejandra Cancino is a guest on the latest episode of WGN's Outside the Loop Radio, discussing her reporting on wage theft in Cook County — and how workers are impacted. buff.ly/mt75GHo
Did you miss any of our investigations last year? Catch up on our team’s reporting on wrongful convictions, ICE detention practices, and more.
Injustice Watch’s best work of 2025
Revisit some of our team’s outstanding reporting from this past year, including our investigations into tax foreclosures, a rogue forensics lab, juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and the…
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January 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Did you miss any of our investigations last year? Catch up on our team’s reporting on wrongful convictions, ICE detention practices, and more.
We’re looking for an experienced manager and editor with a track record of successful investigative work who can demonstrate an understanding of the way courts impact local communities. buff.ly/m2ySFTD
January 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
We’re looking for an experienced manager and editor with a track record of successful investigative work who can demonstrate an understanding of the way courts impact local communities. buff.ly/m2ySFTD
A scandal at a Chicago forensics lab exposed a troubling lack of oversight of crime labs in Illinois. (Published August 2025) buff.ly/SqA9ocm
Fake science, faulty methods, misleading testimony
How a rogue forensics lab in Chicago got people wrongfully convicted for driving high.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM
A scandal at a Chicago forensics lab exposed a troubling lack of oversight of crime labs in Illinois. (Published August 2025) buff.ly/SqA9ocm
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“There are not enough investigators. And the employers continue to steal wages and they rely on the fact that probably no one can do anything about it,” said Jorge Mujica, a longtime labor organizer with Arise Chicago.
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Illinois fails to collect wages owed to workers in Cook County
Wage theft cases get stalled out in Cook County Court, where it can take years for workers to receive payment they're owed — if they receive it at all.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
“There are not enough investigators. And the employers continue to steal wages and they rely on the fact that probably no one can do anything about it,” said Jorge Mujica, a longtime labor organizer with Arise Chicago.
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I gave $1000 to @injusticewatch.org last year because combined with the work @chicagoappleseed.org does, we need more stories written on our local justice system to show how all this money and reform over the years has not made a just or safe prison system for the incarcerated or ourselves.
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I gave $1000 to @injusticewatch.org last year because combined with the work @chicagoappleseed.org does, we need more stories written on our local justice system to show how all this money and reform over the years has not made a just or safe prison system for the incarcerated or ourselves.
We’re looking for an experienced newsroom leader with a track record of producing and editing impactful, community-centered journalism. If that sounds like you, apply to be our next editor in chief: buff.ly/jKsWWgE
January 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM
We’re looking for an experienced newsroom leader with a track record of producing and editing impactful, community-centered journalism. If that sounds like you, apply to be our next editor in chief: buff.ly/jKsWWgE
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🔷 News you might have missed about the local court system
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January 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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🔷 Our latest investigations
🔷 News you might have missed about the local court system
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Would you like to be my boss?
📣 We’re hiring an editor in chief to lead our award-winning editorial team. Check out the full job posting and apply here: buff.ly/jKsWWgE
January 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Would you like to be my boss?
📣 We’re hiring an editor in chief to lead our award-winning editorial team. Check out the full job posting and apply here: buff.ly/jKsWWgE
January 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
📣 We’re hiring an editor in chief to lead our award-winning editorial team. Check out the full job posting and apply here: buff.ly/jKsWWgE
Our team is hard at work on our judicial election guide, a cornerstone of our public service reporting. In the coming months, we’ll distribute more than 150,000 free print copies across Cook County. Can you donate to support that work? buff.ly/tEnMhe0
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our team is hard at work on our judicial election guide, a cornerstone of our public service reporting. In the coming months, we’ll distribute more than 150,000 free print copies across Cook County. Can you donate to support that work? buff.ly/tEnMhe0
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Final day of our fundraising campaign! Donate $50 or more to our nonprofit newsroom and get a pair of socks as a thank you.
Tomorrow is the final day of the year and the final day of our end-of-year fundraising campaign. We have a goal of getting 100 donors before midnight tomorrow. Can you help us get there? buff.ly/tEnMhe0
December 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Final day of our fundraising campaign! Donate $50 or more to our nonprofit newsroom and get a pair of socks as a thank you.
If you value our work, please consider making a donation before midnight to sustain public service journalism. Any amount helps and all donations are being matched. As a thank you, we’ll send a pair of Injustice Watch socks to anyone who donates $50 or more.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you value our work, please consider making a donation before midnight to sustain public service journalism. Any amount helps and all donations are being matched. As a thank you, we’ll send a pair of Injustice Watch socks to anyone who donates $50 or more.
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Tomorrow is the final day of the year and the final day of our end-of-year fundraising campaign. We have a goal of getting 100 donors before midnight tomorrow. Can you help us get there? buff.ly/tEnMhe0
December 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Tomorrow is the final day of the year and the final day of our end-of-year fundraising campaign. We have a goal of getting 100 donors before midnight tomorrow. Can you help us get there? buff.ly/tEnMhe0
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Perhaps you would like to support quality reporting on the Cook County court system, and perhaps you also need some socks.
🧦 Donate $50 or more before midnight tomorrow, and we’ll send you a pair of Injustice Watch socks as a thank you gift.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Perhaps you would like to support quality reporting on the Cook County court system, and perhaps you also need some socks.
🧦 Donate $50 or more before midnight tomorrow, and we’ll send you a pair of Injustice Watch socks as a thank you gift.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Story on missing traffic stop data; includes background on how CPD largely substituted vehicle stops for pedestrian stops following 2016 stop/frisk protocol change
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Chicago police made nearly 200,000 secret traffic stops last year
Chicago police are required by law to report every traffic stop. But a new investigation found one-third of traffic stops went unreported.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Story on missing traffic stop data; includes background on how CPD largely substituted vehicle stops for pedestrian stops following 2016 stop/frisk protocol change
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The work our team produced this year was emblematic of the deep, person-centered, data-driven investigative reporting we’ve been doing since our founding a decade ago.
Injustice Watch’s best work of 2025
Revisit some of our team’s outstanding reporting from this past year, including our investigations into tax foreclosures, a rogue forensics lab, juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and the…
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December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The work our team produced this year was emblematic of the deep, person-centered, data-driven investigative reporting we’ve been doing since our founding a decade ago.
Illinois has strengthened its labor laws and improved efforts to collect stolen wages for workers. Despite this, the most difficult cases can get bogged down in the system for years. buff.ly/WJHXcax
Illinois fails to collect wages owed to workers in Cook County
Wage theft cases get stalled out in Cook County Court, where it can take years for workers to receive payment they're owed — if they receive it at all.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Illinois has strengthened its labor laws and improved efforts to collect stolen wages for workers. Despite this, the most difficult cases can get bogged down in the system for years. buff.ly/WJHXcax
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Writing this is one of my favorite assignments, because I get to revisit all the incredible work the @injusticewatch.org team did this year. Check it out in case you missed any of it: www.injusticewatch.org/staff-news/2...
Injustice Watch’s best work of 2025
Revisit some of our team’s outstanding reporting from this past year, including our investigations into tax foreclosures, a rogue forensics lab, juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and the count...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Writing this is one of my favorite assignments, because I get to revisit all the incredible work the @injusticewatch.org team did this year. Check it out in case you missed any of it: www.injusticewatch.org/staff-news/2...
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At least one answer is in @injusticewatch.org’s Best of 2025, if you want to cram before you take the test. www.injusticewatch.org/staff-news/2...
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
At least one answer is in @injusticewatch.org’s Best of 2025, if you want to cram before you take the test. www.injusticewatch.org/staff-news/2...
Revisit some of our team’s outstanding reporting from this past year, including our investigations into tax foreclosures, a rogue forensics lab, juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and more. buff.ly/0HeVrdE
Injustice Watch’s best work of 2025
Revisit some of our team’s outstanding reporting from this past year, including our investigations into tax foreclosures, a rogue forensics lab, juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and the…
www.injusticewatch.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Revisit some of our team’s outstanding reporting from this past year, including our investigations into tax foreclosures, a rogue forensics lab, juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and more. buff.ly/0HeVrdE