The family of a man who died in the Cook County Jail over the weekend gathered outside the criminal courthouse Monday morning ...

COOK COUNTY, Il (WLS) -- More than 100 detainees at the Cook County Jail have tested positive for coronavirus, the county's sheriff announced Sunday. The Cook County Sheriff's Office reported that 101 ...

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m. Thursday, correctional officers in the residential treatment unit of the jail ...

Volunteers offer help to those released from the jail; from water to transportation. It’s a challenge when discharges happen after midnight. When people are released from Cook County Jail, they don’t ...

Police are looking for a silver car after someone opened fire from it — toward two Cook County sheriff’s deputies early ...

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 ...

Reviewing her first year in office, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke defends the increased requests for detention and pushed back at the Trump administration’s repeated assertions that Chicago is ...

Two off-duty Cook County Sheriff’s deputies were shot at early Wednesday outside Mt. Sinai Hospital. No one was hurt, but ...

1921: Three days before he was scheduled to be hanged, “Terrible” Tommy O’Connor and two other prisoners escaped from jail in Chicago and were never seen again. 1945: Henrietta Bradberry earned her ...

Days after new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring program, ...