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

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday tapped a Cook County official to run the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security. Theodore “Ted” D. Berger most recently worked under Cook ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 2023 state law that says constitutional challenges to certain state actions may only ...

A father–daughter duo is planning a dream vacation after winning $3 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket purchased at a ...

The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail ...

A bill throwing out the welcome mat to separation-minded counties in Illinois has passed both bodies of the Indiana ...

I’ve done this my way, making decisions based on family needs and personal needs, and what I thought would serve our state ...

Not much is left of a once-thriving, tidy little encampment tucked inside a Cook County forest preserve in Des Plaines. Even ...

The U.S. Department of Justice says Illinois released several noncitizen migrants who were later arrested for subsequent ...