A program allowing Chicago police officers to file charges in low-level gun crimes without first getting approval from a ...

Like the last several years, the 2026 budget does not include any layoffs or new taxes, fines or fees. The county has not ...

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is joining the 2027 race for mayor of Chicago, but she doesn’t want to talk about it until ...

The Felony Review Bypass Pilot Program was “an unqualified success,” Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said.

Chicago train attack suspect violated electronic monitoring curfew before allegedly setting woman on fire on CTA Blue Line, ...

Last June, William D. Swetz, 34, of Flossmoor, was charged with aggravated battery in a public place and aggravated assault ...

David Barklow, accused of fatally shooting a man in his Gold Coast apartment over 20 years ago, was arrested in a Peruvian ...

Just 43 days after Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle introduced the spending plan that closed a $102.6 million gap ...

The woman convicted of brutally stabbing her sixth-grade classmate to please the fictional horror character "Slender Man" was ...

A man was found guilty of aggravated battery for throwing a drink at former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx last year.