Judge Casey Costigan of Bloomington will become the new chief judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit next year, replacing Mark Fellheimer, whose term expires Dec. 31. Costigan has served as a circuit judge since 2014 when he was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court.
McLean County courts hope to use data on juvenile offenders to reduce adult crime and punishment in central Illinois. The effort has two prongs improving interventions for troubled children, and a potential specialty court for offenders aged 18 to 25.
McLean County circuit court and all the other courts in the state are scrambling to meet an end-of-year deadline to implement the controversial Safe-T Act criminal justice reform bill. The end of cash bail is one of the well-known provisions of the law, but there are a lot more pieces of it that will have big effects.
Judges from the Eleventh Judicial Circuit ditched their robes for hairnets and gloves Wednesday night as they spent the night volunteering at the Midwest Food Bank in Normal.
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