Stalled Justice: Slow Cook County courts see progress in 2023, but some decade-old cases still linger on dockets – Chicago Tribune/MSN

Hints of such efforts can be seen in the latest data on the jail population, which show a dip in the number of people held at least five years with pending felony cases, from 233 a year ago to 223 in mid-December. The median time to complete murder cases also has dropped slightly since last year, prosecutors’ data show. For the cases completed from January through August 2023, the most recent information available, at least half took four years and five months to complete, down from four years and eight months for murder cases finished in 2022.