Cory Ulmer died at the Cook County Jail shortly after correctional officers struck him several times and threw him to the ...

Cook County and Chicago are under an Extreme Heat Warning starting Saturday morning, a Heat Advisory has been issued for the ...

Chicagoans can expect intense heat compounded by muggy humidity for the next several days. The National Weather Service has ...

Cook County is predicting a $211.4 million budget shortfall for 2026, a relatively modest gap that officials said was more of ...

Health care spending, which makes up some 60% of the overall county budget, will actually see a budget shortfall in 2025, ...

Efforts to overhaul Cook County’s property tax system largely fizzled out in the Illinois state legislature this session.

Critics are sounding the alarm about the potential for drastic Medicaid cuts in the new bill from Republicans making its way ...

Two people were arrested after police seized kilograms of suspected fentanyl and 25 guns from their Cook County apartment and ...

Illinois officials permanently shut down a Chicago-based crematory on Thursday after whistleblowers flagged the disturbing ...

A Chicago man has been charged with multiple felonies following a serious crash involving a state vehicle early Sunday on the ...

Heights Crematory in Chicago Heights, Illinois has been permanently closed after state investigators found it had improperly ...