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

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

A former Cook County man residing in Davenport has been arrested for allegedly trafficking in large amounts of cocaine base, ...

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

The man accused of setting the fire that killed veteran Chicago fire captain will remain in jail after a detention hearing, ...

One of several examples the U.S. Department of Justice gave of how federal officials have been obstructed by Illinois’ ...

Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of obstructing justice after directing a migrant out of her courtroom as federal agents waited ...

Despite DOJ's claims, “We don’t prevent the federal authorities from coming to our jails or coming to our prisons with a ...

In another example given, the DOJ claims an illegal alien that federal officials were obstructed from picking up in a jail was subsequently let out in 2024. That individual was then arrested on a ...

"(Office of the Chief Judge) personnel are not law enforcement officers and cannot investigate, seek escape charges, or obtain an arrest warrant ... in the Cook County Jail. It was intended ...