Cook County could soon launch a program to pay residents cash to help pay their property tax bills. The program would give $1 ...

Injustice Watch investigation, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said, while difficult, tech overhaul was necessary.

On April 1, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office began shuttering one of the country’s largest and most restrictive electronic monitoring programs.

Join University of Illinois Extension in Elizabeth for our Spring Break Gardening Series. Choose from many different gardening topics over the upcoming months. Vermicomposting April 15 at 1:30 p.m. at ...

An Illinois county is moving forward with plans to expand a taxpayer-funded guaranteed income program for residents. Cook ...

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

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

Cook County is moving to the next phase of its guaranteed income program after the pilot launched in 2022. The program ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some ...

What a whirlwind of two days! For the 2025 Northeastern Illinois Envirothon competition, more than 145 students on 29 teams ...

A Venezuelan man who’d been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement can move forward with potentially donating a kidney to his brother after ICE granted him a temporary with ...