Illinois and Cook County officials have spent more than $250 million after hiring a Texas company to overhaul outdated, error-ridden computer systems. The three projects are taking years and are ...

The multi-billion-dollar project is slated to develop a long-vacant former steel mill site, with the potential for thousands ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some ...

Cook County commissioners approved the one-time payments from a new $15 million fund that aims to provide homeowners some ...

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

With federal funding for guaranteed income spent, a committee will determine what’s next for the county program.

Should county commissioners use the official county letterhead and logo when writing letters expressing their own personal views? The issue was hotly debated at the Thursday, April 10, Ottawa County ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced plans for a new advisory committee that will review research, develop ...

There’s been ongoing controversy over property valuations in Cook County ... the assessor’s office “fixed hundreds of mistakes identified in an investigation by the Illinois Answers Project ...

A new interactive map might help Cook County drivers avoid road construction and get around the Chicago area faster this summer. The Cook County Department of Transportation released its 2025 ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced Monday that she is running for another term. Preckwinkle cited her concerns with the Trump administration as a reason to run for reelection.