The changes amount to small but significant rollbacks in the office’s openness under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke.

A man was arrested after officers found suspected marijuana, promethazine, and a handgun during a recent traffic stop. The stop was part of the Cook County Sheriff’s River North Initiative. The ...

After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has begun to tick up once again.

Public Safety Bureau County considers plan to hold Cook County inmates in local jail Under the proposal, Bureau County would receive $65 per detainee, per day.

Public Safety Cook County inmates won't be housed at Bureau County Jail following board vote The county board voted 11 to six against the proposal.

Eason — who worked at the sheriff’s office for almost 30 years before he retired in 2020 — remembered McFadden calling him part of the “good old boy” system, implying he fetched for whoever was in ...

During the annual Christmas service, which marked its 42nd year at the jail on Wednesday, Cardinal Blase Cupich delivered a hopeful message of inclusion and faith to the nearly 50 inmates gathered.

Authorities are investigating after a Cook County Jail inmate died at a hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell on Monday. Michael O’Connor, 33, was housed in the jail’s ...

Cook County Jail inmates are learning financial literacy from Harvard grads in a popular class. CHICAGO (WBBM) — Cook County Jail detainees are getting an Ivy League education of sorts.

In the first program of its kind in the country, inmates leaving Cook County Jail will soon receive free state identification cards.

Chicago’s most active voting precinct has an unlikely cornerstone. A big chunk of its voters don’t cast ballots at an elementary school gym or a library — they vote from jail. Vot… ...