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

Aging adults in Cook County identify healthcare, transportation, and housing as their greatest needs. The clear message was ...

Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN) plans to sign recently passed legislation to explore options for bringing Illinois counties under ...

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

The Cook County Historical Society announced in a press release on April 16 that they are welcoming two new staff members in management capacities. Annie Buresh (pictured left above) will serve as the ...

Indiana's Legislature this week gave final approval to a bill that would create the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission to recommend whether to change the border between the two states.

We wish the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission were just a legislative version of a satirical article in The Onion. It’s not, which somehow makes its proposed existence feel even sillier.

Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission” to redraw state lines and absorb 33 rural Illinois counties that want to split ...

A bill passed this week by Indiana lawmakers would create a commission to explore bringing numerous Illinois counties into ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

With slating starting for Democratic Party nominations in next year’s elections, the top of the ticket remains uncertain, but the contests to run Cook County’s vital property tax offices are already ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Share Cook County’s top prosecutor says she ... had no comment on O’Neill Burke’s claims. But the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, which supported ...