Cook County is on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to homeowners who lost their homes and equity as a result of the ...

Wentworth Area detectives received an unusual phone call from a local defense attorney Monday night: The attorney’s client was reporting a dead body in a Greater Grand Crossing apartment and wanted to ...

Most of the evictions were on the South Side, records suggest. But a quarter of the cases are missing key information, ...

Steele, an outgoing Board of Review commissioner, repeatedly told officers she was an elected official after she caused a ...

A federal appeals court panel has upheld former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's conviction on bribery and other corruption charges, ruling that prosecutors presented clear evidence he traded ...

A Cook County tax official was acquitted of drunken driving Tuesday after a two-day trial that focused on a November 2024 crash in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood and the police response. Board of ...

Edward Traywick Jr. was sentenced to 6 months in jail and probation for reckless discharge of a firearm that injured a woman ...

Cook County prosecutors are contesting most certificates of innocence, keeping exonerees tied up in court and delaying ...

The widow and son of late Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer were found shot to death on Chicago's West Side on Tuesday in ...