In the face of spiking property taxes across Chicago, Assessor Fritz Kaegi and South and West Side community leaders held a ...

Rep. Delia Ramirez, who represents constituents in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois, called for a House Judiciary Committee ...

Federal judge rules the system violates the “takings” clause, but compensation for homeowners in class-action lawsuit remains ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. - A Blue Island man on parole for a felony gun conviction is facing new felony charges after he was ...

The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make a guaranteed basic income pilot program permanent.

CHICAGO - Cook County's longstanding system of collecting property tax debts by seizing and selling people's homes, worth ...

1921: Three days before he was scheduled to be hanged, “Terrible” Tommy O’Connor and two other prisoners escaped from jail in Chicago and were never seen again. 1945: Henrietta Bradberry earned her ...

A federal judge ruled Cook County’s tax sale system unconstitutional for stripping homeowners of equity, leaving potential ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Cook County program designed to relieve patient medical debt may not be working for everyone. For many struggling to pay their hospital bills, the financial relief may come a little ...

Reviewing her first year in office, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke defends the increased requests for detention and ...

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m. Thursday, correctional officers in the residential treatment unit of the jail ...

The man who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer on Tuesday night during a stolen car investigation has been ...