Illinois and Cook County officials have spent more than $250 million after hiring a Texas company to overhaul outdated, error-ridden computer systems. The three projects are taking years and are ...

The letter, posted to Instagram Wednesday as a petition people can sign, harshly criticizes Department of Cultural Affairs ...

In one case, a calendar calculation was 73 years off, the letter alleged. As the Cook County contract proceeded ... for the administrative office of the Illinois Courts, the Supreme Court arm ...

CHICAGO — Dozens of Chicago artists have drafted a letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson ... director for over two years when he was a Cook County commissioner. Johnson fired former Commissioner ...

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Lt. Gov Juliana Stratton paid an unofficial visit on day two of the Cook County Democratic ...

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

CHICAGO — Cook County is trying to make navigating its services easier for people, regardless of what language they speak. Starting Tuesday, people who may not speak English but need help from the ...

For example, that would include a family ... where the commercial property tax base has dwindled. Separately, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office found that in 2023, in suburbs south ...

On April 10, 2025, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved further revisions to the Commission on Human Rights’ regulations implementing ...

Steele serves on the three-member panel that hears property tax appeals in Cook County but has her sights set on a different office: Cook County office. Steele, incumbent Fritz Kaegi and three ...

(The Center Square) – An Illinois county is moving forward with plans to expand a taxpayer-funded guaranteed income program for residents. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced ...