Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a ...

It could soon get easier to receive mental health support in Cook County. Cook County Health and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Chicago are kicking off a multi-year initiative to expand ...

Some Cook County Board members are requesting closer scrutiny of the mosquito districts following an investigation by the county’s inspector general that resulted in calls for members of the ...

The $12.1 million family medicine clinic joins a network of 14 county-run facilities serving neighbors regardless of their ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. — Individuals in Cook County have an opportunity this week to clear overdue moving traffic violation fees without paying additional costs. Mariyana Spyropoulos, Clerk of the ...

Cook County’s pilot program to provide guaranteed income to more than 3,000 people did what it was intended to do, early findings suggest — it helped provide some economic stability.

COOK CO., Ill. - A former cemetery worker in Cook County was charged with allegedly stealing more than $114,000 in funeral expenses from families. Latrecia Marshall-Parris, 48, was charged with ...

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic monitoring participants, marking the beginning of a shift in one ...

With some residents facing record-high increases to their property taxes, Cook County commissioners on Thursday approved giving one-time payments of $1,000 to a limited number of households ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. — Cook County is moving to the next phase of its guaranteed income program after the pilot launched in 2022. The program leveraged $42,000,000 in federal funding provided by ...

To the surprise of no one, Cook County property taxes went up again. Residential property tax bills surged 78% on a typical home between 2007 and 2024, while property values inched up just 7.3%.