Reviewing her first year in office, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke defends the increased requests for detention and ...

A 24-year-old man being held in Cook County Jail died Thursday evening after a fire broke out in his cell inside the facility ...

After the fire was put out, Martinez Duncan, 24, was removed from the cell and brought to a holding area where he became ...

Changes are coming to the Cook County court system’s troubled electronic monitoring program. State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill ...

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced that Martinez Duncan died after a fire broke out in the jail’s residential ...

While college students were just getting started on their semester studies this fall, five young men were celebrating the ...

A Cook County man on parole for aggravated robbery has been ordered held pretrial after being charged with robbing an Oak ...

The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved large investments in policing and prosecutions, over objections from advocates.

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m.