Michael O’Connor’s family sued under the state’s Wrongful Death Act, alleging the Cook County Sheriff’s Office fell short in ...

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 brick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A federal judge in Chicago is expected to decide by Monday whether to order the release of a large number of Cook County Jail detainees because of the threat from COVID-19. U.S.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Volunteers in Little Village are calling on the Cook County Jail to make improvements for inmates when they are released -- specifically when it is cold outside. The group hosted a ...

People who fail to pay court-ordered support to their children or former spouses can land in jail. Expanding access to ...

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Illinois House Bill 4469 is an initiative that, if passed, would affect inmates throughout the state. Drafted this past January with an implementation date of 2020, the bill consists of three major ...

The voting precinct could have been any one of hundreds throughout Chicago, except that these voters in the first round of the mayoral election were all wearing the same beige smocks. And the security ...