This image captures a moment of collective mourning: fellow first responders and Red Cross volunteers stand in solemn salute, ...

Chicago police announced Thursday that Josalyn Fowler of Thornton, Illinois, has been charged with multiple felonies.

It's an audacious effort by the city of Chicago to pay for hundreds of of megawatts of clean energy to offset power usage in the airports and every firehouse, police district, library and city-owned ...

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

Cook County has designated April as "Second Chance Month" to support reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.

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

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

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

More than a bit of buzz surrounds a recently released Civic Federation report calling for the dissolution of four suburban ...

The Cook County Office of Emergency Management manages the County-wide E-911 addressing system. The role of the Emergency 911 Addressing system is to provide the public with competent, timely and ...

Legislation permitting speed cameras in some Cook County suburbs is on hold in favor ... unanimously Wednesday and now heads to the House. Chicago currently has 178 speed cameras, 16 of which ...