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

Four men from Cook County stole from multiple west suburban Home Depot stores over the last several weeks, prosecutors said.

Miguel Alvarado, charged with carjacking in Oak Lawn and reckless driving in Bridgeview, was found unresponsive in Cook ...

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

The man charged with stealing a Bedford Park police squad car and a USPS truck, leading to a crash, has been found dead at the Cook County Jail ...

In her first interview since the incident, Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele explained what led up to ...

CHICAGO — Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s working. WGN News spent time at the jail to learn about the ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom ...

DePaul’s class this quarter is about homelessness. A group of students sit in a big circle in the basement of Chicago’s Cook County Jail, listening in rapt attention to DePaul University ...