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

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

A man accused of stealing a Bedford Park cop car and USPS truck before a crash that injured two kids was found dead in jail, ...

The Cook County sheriff's office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge ...

COOK CO., Ill. - A former cemetery worker in Cook County was charged with allegedly stealing more than $114,000 in funeral ...

The man charged with stealing a Bedford Park police squad car and a USPS truck, leading to a crash, has been found dead at the Cook County Jail ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...