Cook County’s top prosecutor says electronic monitoring isn’t keeping the public safe when used for accused violent criminals ...

A man accused of stealing a Bedford Park cop car and USPS truck before a crash that injured two kids was found dead in jail, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Others, though, including the Cook County state’s attorney ... in 1989 out of a mandate to reduce overcrowding in the county jail following a consent decree, while the chief judge launched ...