Cook County’s finance committee approved a settlement Wednesday for a victim of a coerced confession by detectives who worked under disgraced Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge.

Cook County Jail in Chicago is one of the largest single-site jails in the United States, and this video takes viewers inside ...

Two Cook County sheriff's deputies were detained by a judge's order while on court duty and forced to apologize before they were released.

A resolution calling for a review is scheduled for a vote Tuesday in the Health and Hospitals Committee of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Advocates, elected officials and faith leaders say a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The family of a man who died in Cook County Jail over the weekend gathered outside the criminal courthouse Monday morning to call ...

Maurice Hollis, 25, faces a felony charge for allegedly possessing fentanyl at Cook County Jail. Staff found pills in a pocket sewn into his pant leg during a search June 6. Hollis is in Illinois ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County sheriff's office announced Monday that 33 more detainees at the Cook County Jail have tested positive for coronavirus, raising the total number of confirmed cases ...

The Cook County Sheriff's Office is warning about a new phone scam aiming to con people out of thousands of dollars. The office said the caller claimed a person failed to respond to a grand jury ...

An inmate and 10 correctional officers were hospitalized on Sunday afternoon after a fire was set inside a cell at the Cook ...