Cook County’s fragmented domestic violence court system fails to provide adequate services and protect victims.

Nearly 13 percent of the 1,350 Illinois ZIP codes at high risk of lead exposure in children are in Cook County. The 172 Cook ...

Ray LaHood, former GOP member of Congress and the U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Barack Obama, joins John Williams to talk about a bipartisan effort to to remove the influence of ...

Francisco Perez, who served as a chief hearings officer under former assessor Joseph Berrios, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to ...

SCOOP: Jesse Jackson Jr. leads the pack of potential Democratic contenders in the 2nd Congressional District race, according ...

For the third time since 2014, a bipartisan group wants to amend the Illinois Constitution to affect how state legislative ...

In a blow to Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and a reflection of divided allegiances, the Cook County Democratic Party failed Friday to endorse Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton for retiring U.S. Sen. Dick ...

Cook County Dems stay out of heated Senate race — endorse Patrick Hynes over incumbent assessor The Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee met for day two of slating and opted for an ...

Illinois State Politics Cook County Dems back Croke for comptroller, no endorsement for Senate race Illinois state Rep. Margaret Croke proposed legislation to ban corporal punishment in private ...

Boundary Fire initially started 10:11 p.m. July 17 in San Diego County, California. It has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service for 16 hours.

What is your defining memory of the 1995 Chicago heat wave? Here’s what you told us. Readers got creative to try to cool off, and they saw things they’d never seen before.