The Cook County Circuit Court Clerk's massive records storage facility in Cicero houses the physical documents and evidence from the criminal history of Al Capone and John Wayne Gary to the Great Chicago Fire.
Criminal history in Cook County is long and sordid — from Al Capone to Leopold and Loeb to John Wayne Gacy.
“We have millions and millions, I couldn’t even tell you the number,” said Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez.Let’s not forget the recent history of this office. Under embattled former Clerk Dorothy Brown, records would appear tattered or even missing. Digitization was moving at a snail’s pace. The current clerk said the task of scanning tens of millions of pieces of paper to a computer server might yet take a while.
And it isn’t just paper files. In one wing of the building, there’s a collection of items used as evidence. TV sets. Bicycles. There was an entire police car door with a giant bullet hole preserved in it — evidence in what appears to have been a firearm case. The really old case files are handwritten and bound. In one massive book there are indictments representing a 100-year-old case considered then to be the crime of the century: the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks at the hands of University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Take a trip further into history, and another notable Chicagoan’s troubling ordeal emerges.
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