Antonio McDowell was the 51st individual to be exonerated in a case involving the misconduct of disgraced Chicago Police ...

A Cook County man has been sentenced to 315 years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a minor in McLean County.

Fourth-year student Sophie Tedesco has been awarded the University of Chicago’s highest undergraduate honor, the Hugo F.

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

A Chicago man accused of killing a Waukegan college student during a road-rage shooting in Gurnee in 2021 was ordered ...

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 ...

CHICAGO - Beyond the barbed wire and locked doors at Cook County Jail's Division 11, something significant is happening not many know about. Through a civics class, Nathaniel Carswell and others ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Detainees leaving Cook County Jail will soon be able to apply for a free state ID on the way back to society. Part of the jail can be seen in this 2021 photo.

He called again later that evening, this time letting her know he’d been moved to the Cook County Jail in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, an imposing compound of concrete, brick ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — An inmate was beaten to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- No access to soap, restriction on exercise, and first amendment rights being violated are the claims being made by one group about the situation inside the Cook County Jail.

Chicago’s most active voting precinct has an unlikely cornerstone. A big chunk of its voters don’t cast ballots at an elementary school gym or a library — they vote from jail. Voting at the ...