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 ...

An inmates at the Cook County, Ill., jail takes his covered ballot to be cast at the jail's Division 11 Chapel after voting in a local election on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Chicago. The ...

At her swearing-in ceremony six months ago, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke promised a tougher approach to ...

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An inmate was beaten to death Tuesday morning inside the hospital wing of Cook County Jail, the sheriff’s office ... the statement said, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was taken to Mount ...

The Cook County Jail, with more than 5,500 inmates and detainees ... We'll catch you up on the news you need to know with the Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Despite that ruling, voting rights ...

The satellite location comes after years of neighbors raising concerns about crime around the Roosevelt Green Line station.

A correctional officer at the Cook County Jail was injured Friday. The Chicago Fire Department said they responded to the jail just before 7:30 p.m. A correctional officer was transported to ...

DePaul’s class this quarter is about homelessness. A group of students sit in a big circle in the basement of Chicago’s Cook County Jail, listening in rapt attention to DePaul University ...

Cook County’s jailed population ... a former longtime city of Chicago inspector general. Some advocates for reducing the jail population — including County Board President Toni Preckwinkle ...