An arrest has been made following an April incident in which two Chicago residents were robbed at gunpoint while returning to ...

Cook County Jail sits on one of the largest single-site ... (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) Matthew McLoughlin, campaign coordinator for the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, said Burke ...

Andy Grimm / Chicago Sun-Times Share The Cook County Jail population has dipped below 5,000 for only the second time in nearly four decades, a drop experts are linking to Illinois’ historic ...

Illinois was the first state in the nation ... 2022, at Division 5 of Cook County Jail. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) Proponents of the law have long argued that cash bail deepened disparities ...

Data obtained by Illinois Answers Project shows Cook County Jail used restraint chairs nearly 900 times in five years. That's more than at any other jail in the state. But it's also a lower rate ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Next week marks one year since Illinois outlawed cash bail ... The population of the Cook County Jail is down about 14%. Other urban parts of the state are also down about ...

CHICAGO — Certain detainees leaving Cook County jail will now be given a state ID card upon release in a new pilot program announced Monday by Sheriff Tom Dart and Illinois Secretary of State ...

In Cook County, the change was supported by ... is the elimination of bail has driven down jail populations across Illinois. But how drastic the decrease varies by the size of the county.

An Illinois jail continues to teach democracy ... of many being temporarily held while not serving a sentence at Cook County Jail’s Division II, which still has barbed wire surrounding the ...

A corrections officer could be heard shouting commands Thursday morning in a concrete yard of Division 19 at the Cook County jail ... a Hampshire man, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday ...

The Cook County Jail population has dipped below 5,000 for only the second time in nearly four decades, a drop experts are linking to Illinois’ historic elimination of cash bail on Sept.