A man accused of stealing a Bedford Park cop car and USPS truck before a crash that injured two kids was found dead in jail, ...

State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed. Chief ...

The man charged with stealing a Bedford Park police squad car and a USPS truck, leading to a crash, has been found dead at the Cook County Jail ...

Cook County’s top prosecutor says electronic monitoring isn’t keeping the public safe when used for accused violent criminals ...

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new ...

Inside-Out is a program taught in hundreds of jails and prisons across the country. DePaul’s class this quarter is about ...

The Cook County sheriff's office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge ...

Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s working. WGN News spent time at the jail to learn about the program, the method ...

would have sent up to 50 of Cook County's inmates to the Bureau County Jail. The county would have then received $65 per detainee, per day. Under the deal, Cook County would pay for medical care ...

DePaul University is sending students into Cook County Jail to learn alongside some of the people detained there. It gives both groups the chance to learn from a DePaul professor and from each other.

CHICAGO – Cook County prosecutors have dropped all charges against a man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Robert Johnson was freed in February after a judge ...