CHICAGO (CBS) – An inmate at the Cook County Jail was beaten to death on Tuesday ... and the manner of death to be a homicide. The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force is investigating.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 defendant, who was ordered detained in Cook County Jail, was among those who stood for revamped detention hearings across Illinois during the first month under the new pretrial system.

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 ...

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.