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

The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail never did.

One of several examples the U.S. Department of Justice gave of how federal officials have been obstructed by Illinois’ ...

The Cook County sheriff's office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge ...

The musical tells the story of Roxie Hart, played by Strictly Come Dancing star Janette Manrara, with Sinitta as Mama Morton.

State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed. Chief Judge Timothy Evans' office has acknowledged it will need more than 150 ...

In another example given, the DOJ claims an illegal alien that federal officials were obstructed from picking up in a jail was subsequently let out in 2024. That individual was then arrested on a ...

In her first interview since the incident, Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele explained what led up to ...

Four men from Cook County stole from multiple west suburban Home Depot stores over the last several weeks, prosecutors said.

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom ...