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

No charges will be filed in the fatal shooting outside The Dime in Lincoln Park after Cook County prosecutors cited ...

Six people in Cook County have died from heat-related causes so far this month. The last time Cook County came close to this ...

Six people in Cook County have died from heat-related causes in July so far, marking the deadliest stretch of extreme ...

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 ...

Chicago’s minimum wage will increase July 1, when it will hit $17.05 for most workers across the city. Cook County’s minimum wage will go up to $15.40.

Cook County is considering whether to extend a financial lifeline to Chicago Public Schools by including the district in an interest-free loan program so the cash-strapped school system can avoid ...

Kevin Jackson was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 22 years in prison before he was freed. Now he has realized his dream by starting a landscaping business. But his quest to be declared ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke vowed to “not back down” from defending the ordinance, saying assault weapons “have no place in our communities.” ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Monday night's workshop was one of three being put on by the Cook County Assessor's Office this week in some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by property tax increases. But even with ...

Cook County will ask voters in November whether to back a 3% 'millionaire's tax' aimed at funding schools and property-tax ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi and the Cook County Board of Review are blaming each other for Chicago homeowners' skyrocketing property tax bills. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Who is to blame for Chicago ...