Cook County falls just short of being ranked America’s worst ‘Judicial Hellhole’ – Cook County Record

The American Tort Reform Association moved Cook County up the rankings this year from No. 5 to No. 2 on the threat posed to employers, businesses and Illinois residents from the state's encouragement of "no injury" lawsuits. The report said this trend is seen most clearly through class action lawsuits flooding courts in Cook County and elsewhere in Illinois under the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act.