Temperatures dropped to the single digits leading into overnight Monday as the cold snap air that has blanketed North Texas ...

Injustice Watch reported last year that Leonard Dixon, who ran the Cook County juvenile detention center for a decade, owned property and voted in Michigan.

After nearly seven years of unanswered questions, a Cook County jury on Monday found Markham's mother, Melody Townsend, ...

In an endorsement session with the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Toni Preckwinkle acknowledged the upgrade problems “have ...

A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for much of Chicagoland for the majority of the day Sunday, followed by a Cold Weather ...

Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller is bringing her long-standing focus on health care equity into a crowded Democratic ...

Homeowners across Cook County were certainly ready to put 2025 behind them. Starting with a computer issue, a series of events led to one of the largest residential property tax increases in the ...

A Herald public records appeal has revealed that Gov. Maura Healey’s office and State Police knew about embattled former aide LaMar Cook’s criminal history, which includes serious 2001 gun charges, ...

Weeks after a Chicago man who’d been released on electronic monitoring allegedly lit a CTA Blue Line passenger on fire, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said she wants to review ways ...

One day after he was sworn in, new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach said he is ordering an urgent review of the county's troubled electronic monitoring program. The program has been under attack ...

On a cool night in late May 2020, amid citywide protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, Safarian Herring, 25, was fatally shot while riding in the car of ...

The Cook County jail’s shuttered Division IV dormitory buildling, 2717 S. Sacramento, is slated for demolition in 2026. The county projects spending more than $1 billion on capital projects at the ...