Text messages appeared to show a former Lake County Community Corrections officer was in a sexual relationship with a work ...

A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors ...

Three people were arrested this week after police said they destroyed campaign posters for a candidate for Cook County ...

Cook County Crime Stoppers announced Wednesday that they are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest in a shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl on Chicago's West Side ...

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

At least three inmates at the Cascade County Detention Center tested positive for hepatitis C for the first time after they were served food contaminated with a kitchen worker’s blood in September, ...

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke says Hoover, 75, took advantage of “misguided public policies and disinvestment” and ravaged Chicago’s neighborhoods with his creation of the Gangster Disciples.

Police on Sunday were asking for help from the public in finding a 15-year-old boy who had been missing for more than 24 ...

A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days before ...