The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail ...

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

During the chase, officers say they saw Antonio pull a handgun from his waistband and toss it over a fence in the 1700 block ...

Cook County’s top prosecutor says electronic monitoring isn’t keeping the public safe when used for accused violent criminals ...

A man accused of stealing a Bedford Park cop car and USPS truck before a crash that injured two kids was found dead in jail, ...

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

A judge has ordered man accused of attacking two Jewish students on a DePaul University's campus to be detained.

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 ...

CHICAGO — Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s working. WGN News spent time at the jail to learn about the ...

State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed.