Evans Out?

Where the heck did this come from?

• Timothy Evans, the longtime Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, lost his re-election bid on Wednesday to Circuit Judge Charles Beach. The vote, Evans’ office said, was 144 to 109 with one spoiled ballot.

  Evans, who has led the county’s courts since September 2001, will be replaced by Beach, a judge who served for years in the Pretrial Division and oversaw initial hearings for defendants newly charged with crimes.

  The Chief Judge is elected every three years by a vote of the circuit’s judges. A source who was present for Wednesday’s balloting said another contender, Judge Nichole Patton, dropped out and threw her support behind Beach.

So almost a year ago, we had a non-Prickwrinkle candidate win the States Attorney spot.

Now, we have Prickwrinkle's handpicked Chief Judge launched by the circuit judges?

• Have the wheels come off the Prickwrinkle machine? 
• Is Beach going to revamp the rules that Evans upended concerning bail? 
• Does O'Neill Burke have a judicial ally in the ongoing battle to regain control of the justice system fighting against the "just us" people (or folks)? 
• Is Dart going to have to reopen parts of the jail that he shuttered? 

And lastly, if Prickwrinkle is losing her grip, Conehead is in real trouble. He might be in line for another nervous breakdown.