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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A second detainee who tested positive for COVID-19 has died at Cook County Jail, officials said Thursday night. The death came on the same day a federal judge ruled against the mass ...

"Our lives are not defined by the errors we make," Cardinal Blase Cupich said. He and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition offered Christian religious services Thursday, spreading messages of positivity at the ...

Three men have been charged in a train burglary in Englewood earlier this month, the Cook County Sheriff's Office said.

A high-traffic area of the South Loop is drawing extra attention from local law enforcement. The Cook County Sheriff's Office is applying significant resources in an effort to curb drug activity and ...

Churches and organizations in Chicago brought the spirit of the season to the Cook County Jail, with faith leaders and elected officials holding services and masses to remind inmates that they are ...

CHICAGO -- Singer R. Kelly was released Saturday afternoon from the Cook County Jail after paying more than $161,000 owed in back child support, officials said. It was immediately unclear who paid the ...

A program led by Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke will use $1 million in new funding to provide academic and ...

The women are subjected to "daily assaults' from detainees, the lawsuit states. — -- Hundreds of women employed with the public defender's office in Cook County, Illinois have filed a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A fourth Cook County Jail detainee who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. The Cook County Sheriff's Office reported that 64-year-old Karl Battiste died at Stroger Hospital on ...