Illinois lawmakers are clashing over a Cook County property tax relief plan that restricts the types of evidence the Cook County Board of Review can consider and requires online transparency. During a ...

Before paying to upgrade a West Side storage warehouse for court records, Cook County is revamping the procedure for how long court records are stored. County officials withdrew Monday a request for ...

Mariyana Spyropoulos took office in December and began to do what she promised to do: improving trust and transparency.

After weeks of saying there were no records available or they were working on them, Cook County officials provided the I-Team with a look at 2,000 pages of spending records. The paperwork reveals how ...

Paolo Cisneros said he faces one of the hardest decisions in his life. He said he was born and raised in Chicago, where he saw the effects of segregation, an experience that influenced him to study ...

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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 ...

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 ...