Amanda Pyron [left], executive director of the Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence, and Stephanie Love-Patterson, executive director of Connections for Abused Women and their Children, speaking during a July 29 Cook County Board of Commissioners meeting

Leaders of Cook County’s multibillion-dollar court system are scrambling to expand access to domestic violence courtrooms amid mounting pressure from commissioners and complaints by advocacy groups that abused women and their families are being left in the lurch.