Fourteen graduates got their records expunged for completing the (W)RAP program, which offers non-violent offenders treatment and support as an alternative to incarceration.

Two new cold weather deaths have brought the total number of confirmed or suspected Cook County weather deaths to seven since a snowstorm and frigid temperatures swept through the Midwest, officials ...

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In the weeks right after the mass shooting at the Highland Park Independence Day parade last year, a suburban man allegedly told a family member to hide his handguns, saying he was concerned he would ...

Federal authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into a massive data breach that potentially affected as many as 1.2 million patients at Cook County’s public health system and a total of 14 ...

Cook County has recorded its 13,000th coronavirus death, officials said Wednesday, calling it a "grim milestone" that comes as trailers are once again being deployed to hospitals. Officials, citing ...

Though blockchain has been primarily used in financial and legal services, this Chicago county office is looking to introduce the technology to real estate recordkeeping. On Oct. 7, the Cook ...

Cook County prosecutors on Monday asked for more time to decide on whether to prosecute R&B star R. Kelly on sexual abuse charges involving four Chicago-area women. At a brief hearing at the Leighton ...

Cook County reported its first COVID-19-related death on Wednesday, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. The person who died was between ages 75 and 79. Cook County still has the fewest ...