The incident took place at about 1:30 a.m. on March 24. Christian Harper, 24, is accused of punching a nurse in the face twice and kicking a Maywood police officer in the face, the Cook County Sheriff ...

Inside Division 11 at the Cook County Jail, there's joy and celebration ... and even on the faces of some of the men who are in the room, you could feel that there's a sense of being trapped ...

DePaul University is sending students into Cook County Jail to learn alongside some of the people detained there. It gives both groups the chance to learn from a DePaul professor and from each other.

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Share The Cook County sheriff’s office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge amid questions about who will ...

DePaul offers at least one of these classes at Cook County jail every quarter ... existing,” another student interjects. Across the room, another group creates a dictionary of terms to describe ...

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 ...