Two people are facing felony gun charges after a traffic stop led to the discovery of drugs, alcohol and firearms, according ...

The Cook County Sheriff's Office warns of a scam where callers pose as law enforcement and demand $9,500 for missing a ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. ( WGN) – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public of a telephone scam. The sheriff’s office ...

A 5-year-old girl is in critical condition after falling into a pool in unincorporated Lemont Township on Friday night.

The office said the caller claimed a person failed to respond to a grand jury subpoena and now must deposit $9,500 into a Cook County Jail kiosk or face arrest.

Seeking to identify long-term shifts in how the criminal justice system operates in Cook County, Loyola University ...

A 5-year-old girl is in critical condition after nearly drowning in a backyard pool in the south suburbs on Friday.

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Cook County Jail 13:22. Sheriff Tom Dart says Cook County Jail, with a population of about 7,500, has become a dumping ground for the poor and mentally ill.

About 100 people charged with murder in Cook County, Illinois, are on home monitoring, not behind bars, according to the sheriff. "Seventy-five to 80 percent of my people on home monitoring are ...

By February 1978, John Lyght had been sheriff of Cook County, in Minnesota’s Arrowhead, for long enough to have seen quite a lot. But a caller from Lutsen said she had an escaped animal on the ...