The Cook County Assistant State's Attorney's Office charged 20-year-old Jabari McGee of Chicago with first-degree murder.

The Illinois Senate advanced a pair of bills this week designed to address the community's concerns about Sonya Massey's tragic death and how it was handled.

State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed. Chief ...

Cook County’s top prosecutor says electronic monitoring isn’t keeping the public safe when used for accused violent criminals ...

Injustice Watch investigation, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said, while difficult, tech overhaul was necessary.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has been summoned to testify at a Congressional hearing about the state's "sanctuary" laws to shield undocumented immigrants from federal authorities. The Governor is said to ...

A Vietnam vet’s headstone vanished nearly a year ago. Now, his family says the Cook County cemetery is blocking the replacement.

A Cook County assistant state’s attorney says the cop’s alleged coercion behind a Chicago murder confession has little to do ...

The revolver that Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned in at a Chicago police gun buyback resurfaced at the scene of ...

The Cook County suburb amended the ordinance that forced Diamond Jones out of her rental home, and housing advocates are ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke unveiled charges against a man prosecutors say terrorized women in the city ...