The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail ...

After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has ...

Miguel Alvarado, charged with carjacking in Oak Lawn and reckless driving in Bridgeview, was found unresponsive in Cook ...

DePaul’s class this quarter is about homelessness. A group of students sit in a big circle in the basement of Chicago’s Cook County Jail, listening in rapt attention to DePaul University ...

As Dart watched his son and classmates get enamored with chess, he got an idea — put Dr. Korenman inside Cook County Jail to teach inmates. “This is about trying to change people’s mindset ...

CHICAGO — Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s working. WGN News spent time at the jail to learn about the ...