The Cook County Sheriff's Office released details on five recent criminal cases across the Chicago area. Here's what we know.

The Cook County Sheriff's Office has been a part of Illinois' enhanced CTA security plan and state-led task force dedicated to making it safe since the end of March. Their officers have worked more ...

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 ...

"A public health disaster" is how prisoners, their attorneys and civil rights lawyers are describing the situation at the Cook County Jail. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Hundreds of detainees, correctional ...

Steve Fanady, 61, isn't in jail for a crime. He's being held for civil contempt but says he doesn't have the money to pay up. He says he lives on hard-boiled eggs and peanut butter in the Cook County ...

Sheridan Gorman's father referenced earlier claims that defendant Jose Medina has a developmental disability from a gunshot wound, saying Monday that it's time to "stop pretending this man is harmless ...

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 ...

While college students were just getting started on their semester studies this fall, five young men were celebrating the successful completion of a DePaul University statistics class held at Cook ...

Cook County Jail detainee Nicholas Lee has died after testing positive with coronavirus, marking the third inmate death related to COVID-19 at the facility. CHICAGO (WLS) -- A third Cook County Jail ...