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

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

"(Office of the Chief Judge) personnel are not law enforcement officers and cannot investigate, seek escape charges, or obtain an arrest warrant ... in the Cook County Jail. It was intended ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself ... meaning they cannot arrest people accused of violating the terms of their release.

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday ...

Chakib Mansour Khodja has been charged in a series of sexual assaults where the victims were followed home late at night. He ...

Fernando Orozco faces a Class X DUI charge in Madison County, accused of driving intoxicated with a minor passenger.

Daniel Flores, 49, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of John and Michael Fields on April 12, 1995.