Sugary Beverage Tax Pops This Weekend
At least for Cook County consumers of sweetened drinks. CBS 2's Jim Williams talks with a local businessperson about the extra work to collect the cash.
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At least for Cook County consumers of sweetened drinks. CBS 2's Jim Williams talks with a local businessperson about the extra work to collect the cash.
The preliminary spending plan keeps Preckwinkle's promise not to raise any more taxes, but she said everything else is on the table.
An investigation has been launched to figure out how two male jail inmates were locked up with a female offender in a courtroom holding cell.
Prosecutors will not take new cases against those who lost their licenses for failing to pay tolls, parking tickets or child support.
Sheriff's police responded to a domestic trouble call and saw what appeared to be boxes of fireworks by the front door.
The Cook County Commissioner called on an investigation into why it took five days to find Cameron Sanders' body in the Des Plaines River.
A former Cook County correctional officer has filed suit against the sheriff, alleging he was "illegally fired" by an "unlawful merit board"
Cameron Sanders, 16, has been missing since Saturday, when he was pulled under by the current after diving in the Des Plaines River.
The teen jumped into the river Saturday with a group of friends near Melrose Park.
About 32 percent of the officers assigned to work from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. did not go to work, according to the Cook County Sheriff's office.
Bruno Abate, owner of Tocco's Pizza in Wicker Park offers new pizza program for Cook County inmates and teaches a three-month course that leads to certificates in culinary arts.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart blasted Wisconsin child welfare authorities for refusing to pick up a runaway foster child arrested in Chicago.
Eight detainees have been charged with lighting their uniforms on fire last month at the Cook County Jail.
A judge denied bond for the three inmates involved in a vicious attack of two correctional officers inside the Cook County jail on Wednesday night.
Three maximum security inmates have been charged with attempted murder for allegedly attacking two Cook County Jail correctional deputies.
The incident occurred around 8:30 p.m. in a housing tier of Division 9, a super maximum-security part of the jail.
Inmates in the super maximum security division at Cook County Jail are caught on tape lighting their uniforms on fire using a microwave.
The detainees were in the jail's super maximum security division, designated for "problematic detainees who engage in sexual misconduct."
The unnamed physician is accused of submitting expenses that were approved for reimbursement. WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
Reynaldo Guevara's lawyer has said the veteran detective, now 73, is the victim of a gang conspiracy to undermine his work.
The Cook County state's attorney's office has filed a lawsuit to keep the newly elected mayor of Markham from taking the oath of office.
A Criminal Courts building judge's temper flared Saturday as a Cook County prosecutor opted not to send half a dozen reputed gang members to jail for violating conditions of their parole or probation -- after she had found probable cause to hold each of them for trial.
The Cook County Sheriff's office said "significant discipline" is expected in the next week or so, when it wraps up the first part of a lengthy investigation into allegations of timesheet fraud by deputies and supervisors.
Cook County came in the middle of the pack in a recent county health ranking for Illinois, but seven other Chicago area counties were among the top 20.
Thousands of homeowners could be in jeopardy of losing their homes and they do not even know it.
