Cook County leads the nation in exonerations while price of justice grows - leaving taxpayers on the hooks for hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits and settlements

We might need to add $10.25 million to Chicago's long tab of legal settlements paid out to people who've been wrongfully convicted.
The city's council's Finance Committee on Tuesday approved the payment to Alton Logan, a man who spent 26 years behind bars for murder while police swept evidence under the rug that he was innocent, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Logan is just one of 83 people wrongly convicted in Cook County over the past three decades. That figure has earned the county the distinction of being the "false conviction capital" of the nation because more people have been exonerated here than in any other jurisdiction. As we reported in our latest issue, Dallas and Los Angeles counties take second and third place but have have far fewer cases:

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