Christian Mitchell has had strong detractors ever since Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle elevated the young Black man out of obscurity and backed him for the Illinois House in 2012.

The office said the caller claimed a person failed to respond to a grand jury subpoena and now must deposit $9,500 into a Cook County Jail kiosk or face arrest.

During a special board meeting on June 30, the Cook County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 to hire Kristen Trebil-Halbersma to become the new Cook County Administrator.

Commissioners approved two updates of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Emergency shelter operations, one with ISD 166 and the other for the YMCA.

The first two homes in a $12 million modular housing initiative opened, part of a push to add affordable for-sale units across the region.

An extraordinary cold case investigation revealed a formerly unidentified ward of the state to be a Women's Army Corps ...

A dwindling youth population means shrinking potential – not just economically, but in civic energy, creativity and community ...

The program is designed to add affordable housing across Cook County in Humboldt Park, Chicago Heights, and Proviso Township.

By this time next year, all children in Illinois will have lead exposure testing as the state expands the zip codes ...

Chicago police officers made nearly 80,000 arrests before scaling them back significantly during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic the following spring.