It was an astonishing coincidence: a Stateville inmate encountering the Cook County state’s attorney ... after his release from Stateville Correctional Center on July 12, 2022, after a judge ...

As the Cook County probational correctional officer ... guard was left waiting for hours before he was seen at the jail medical facility. McGee said it was fair to say he believes the incident ...

At her swearing-in ceremony six months ago, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke promised a tougher approach to tackling violent crime.

Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped ... co-director of Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Criminal Justice Research. Since the 2010s, the county ...