SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday tapped a Cook County official to run the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and ...

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

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

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

A father–daughter duo is planning a dream vacation after winning $3 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket purchased at a ...

For now, candidates are anxiously awaiting word from both Gov. JB Pritzker and Sen. Dick Durbin, but the behind-the-scenes ...

There is wide and responsible consensus in Illinois that the state’s multitude of government units needs to be whittled down, ...

A bill throwing out the welcome mat to separation-minded counties in Illinois has passed both bodies of the Indiana ...

Not much is left of a once-thriving, tidy little encampment tucked inside a Cook County forest preserve in Des Plaines. Even ...

In the latest twist in the effort to bring Illinois into compliance with a 2023 ruling by the court, eight counties allege ...

A bill that would allow Indiana lawmakers to explore welcoming Illinois counties who wish to secede from their state is headed to the governor’s desk.