Police Search For Missing Inmate, Accidentally Set Free
Police are searching for a Cook County Jail inmate who was accidentally let go.
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Police are searching for a Cook County Jail inmate who was accidentally let go.
While donations are high during the holidays, they can run low during April.
She was indicted after allegedly wearing a judge's robe and presiding over several traffic cases in Dolton in 2016.
A bill seeking to enact harsher penalties on detainees who expose themselves and conduct lewd behavior while in custody was unanimously passed out of the Criminal Law Committee in the Illinois Senate on Tuesday night.
Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle was unanimously elected by all eighty wards and township committeemen as the new Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party.
A Cook County Jail detainee has been indicted after being identified as the second person involved in an incident where marijuana was left in an inmate-only bathroom at Stroger hospital.
Fritz Kaegi defeated incumbent Joe Berrios in the Democratic race for Cook County Assessor.
In a stunning admission, Chicago election officials said Tuesday it erred by sending out a text saying a vote for an assessor candidate would not count.
Eduardo Barrios allegedly approached the student and offered to help with the cramp and took him to his office.
The Cook County commissioner who led the fight against the sweetened beverage tax is now fighting to keep his job.
The agency decided to release his name in the hopes that someone will come forward.
In recent weeks, there has been a dramatic spike in the number of shootings at cemeteries in the near western suburbs.
Cook County Sheriff's officials said the fight happened on Feb. 16 in a dayroom in the jail's maximum security Division 9.
With several weeks of winter remaining, county transportation departments are re-loading after a long weekend of salting and plowing snow.
The automated phone call warns of an arrest warrant that can be resolved by calling a Chicago area phone number, the sheriff's office said.
Toni Preckwinkle countered suggestions that the report was being delayed until after the primary election.
Police from 30 suburban departments in Cook County are going to soon be trained and equipped with Narcan to try to save the lives of people overdosing on opioids.
Last year, approximately 350 correctional officers called in "sick."
An autopsy found she died of chronic ethanolism and cold exposure, the medical examiner's office said. Her death was ruled an accident.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and challenger Bob Fioretti spent an hour debating issues before the Tribune's editorial board.
County government has spent more than $186 million to settle or satisfy 2,100 lawsuits since 2012. Payouts are expected to soar in coming years. CBS 2's Brad Edwards reports.
A woman found dead in west suburban Elmwood Park is Cook County's 14th cold-related death this season.
At least 27 cold-related deaths were reported last winter, according to authorities.
The Cook County Sheriff's Department released video of three of the incidents.
It's the latest fallout from the repeal of the politically unpopular sweetened beverage tax.
