Cook County Sheriff's police say a suburban driver was pulled over for expired plates, but then officers found rifles in her ...

Staffing numbers have remained stagnant since the office was created in 2007. Meanwhile, some county officials have grown hostile, it appears, over a proposal that will help the office alleviate ...

Mariyana Spyropoulos took office in December and began to do what she promised to do: improving trust and transparency.

The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing a ruling made in a lawsuit against Illinois, Cook County and Chicago over ...

Nearly 2.2 million people in Illinois might see eligible criminal records sealed following passage of the ‘Clean Slate’ Act ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle joined a petition filed last week by the Cook County Public Defender's office ...

The line up is a Cook County pre-election tradition, that doubles as a show of electoral strength. Being the first name listed on the ballot among candidates for an office is said to be worth a few ...

The Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the death of an SCI Albion inmate after the Erie County Coroner's Office ...

As demonstrations outside an immigration enforcement facility near Chicago have ramped up, so has the number of protesters ...

A western Massachusetts aide to Gov. Maura Healey was arrested Tuesday evening after authorities said they seized eight ...

Authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of LaMar Cook, a former aide to Gov. Maura Healey. Cook faces cocaine ...