In a statement released by her office to WTTW News on Friday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said a collaboration would not be possible until Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans acknowledges the courts “part in making Chicago neighborhoods less safe.”
Judge Raul Vega was reassigned to administrative duties after he allegedly made the comment to another judge. What Vega said has not been revealed but he was replaced as the presiding judge of the domestic violence division last week.