A Cook County judge will share her decision on a controversial petition calling for a special prosecutor to be assigned to ...

The re-entry organization Bridge to Freedom held a Mother’s Day event for about 80 people incarcerated at the jail Friday.

Steele, an outgoing Board of Review commissioner, repeatedly told officers she was an elected official after she caused a ...

More than 700,000 Cook County residents rely on SNAP, and federal policy changes now under debate could reshape who qualifies ...

Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, ...

A Cook County official who was charged with driving under the influence in November of 2024 was found not guilty Tuesday.

A Cook County senior is upset because his property tax refund is delayed, and it turns out what he thought was a small problem is actually a big mess affecting 25,000 taxpayers. A few years ago, Tom ...

Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s ...

In an unusual step, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke spoke out against the system of ankle bracelets and ...