Cook County Criminal Courts to be named for Leighton

Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle and several commissioners issued a resolution this week to name the Cook County Criminal Courts Building at 26th and California after George Leighton, a 2001 ISBA Laureate of the Academy of Illinois Lawyers. He received the ISBA's Diversity Leadership Award in 2009.

Leighton, 99, served as a Cook County Circuit Court judge and later became the first African American to sit on the Illinois Appellate Court.

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