More Than 400 Jail Inmates Relocated When Air Conditioning Fails
More than 400 Cook County Jail inmates had to be shifted to different facilities Friday night when air conditioning units in the building they were housed in overheated.
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More than 400 Cook County Jail inmates had to be shifted to different facilities Friday night when air conditioning units in the building they were housed in overheated.
The deaths Friday of four people in Chicago have been attributed at least in part to heat-related causes, bringing the total of heat-related deaths in Cook County this week to 10.
Two county clerks from downstate and a Chicago-based Catholic law firm are asking a judge for permission to defend Illinois' gay marriage ban.
After a year of collaboration between the City of Chicago and Cook County, officials say they have achieved tens of millions of dollars in savings.
The family of a John Doe who went unidentified for several months is now suing the Cook county Medical Examiner's office.
Just two days before he officially steps down as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald's office has nailed two more local elected officials in a public corruption probe.
Cook County Assessor Joeseph Berrios is rejecting accusations about alleged nepotism in his office.
Political corruption does not stop at Chicago city limits. A political analyst and former alderman is calling attention to corruption in the suburbs.
At first a suburban Chicago mother thought the family dog was responsible, but responding police looked at a fish tank near where the child had been playing.
A published report says the findings of an audit of the Cook County morgue left Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle "jarred."
It's not exactly a clean sweep of the board that runs the County's Health and Hospitals System, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is hoping to win Board approval for an overhaul of that panel.
After months of investigations into an overcrowding scandal at the Cook County morgue, the office is undergoing a major shakeup.
Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle said county officials have found more money to add to a summer jobs program for youths in high-crime neighborhoods.
Illinois, and most notably Cook County, easily leads the nation in the number of people who have been wrongly convicted of a violent crime.
The Cook County Sheriff's office has received more lab test results, as they try to attach a name to John Wayne Gacy's seven unidentified victims.
For the first time in more than three decades, Cook County property owners will be getting their second installment tax bills on time.
The legislature's failure to pass reform legislation this week means every property owner will continue to pay for it. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
A Skokie woman is suing Cook County, claiming a sheriff's deputy violated her right to breastfeed by demanding she move from a courthouse lobby to a public bathroom -- a request she says was not only illegal, but "degrading."
Two separate lawsuits were filed Wednesday, attempting to secure marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in Illinois.
Charges have been dropped against a Los Angeles man who had been accused of attacking a Chicago Police officer during a protest in the days leading up to the NATO Summit.
Chicago just got a little smaller, now that a Cook County judge ruled in favor of a waste disposal company that's taking 86 acres on the Southeast side to expand its landfill operation.
Candidates are hand-picked -- without their knowledge -- by a team and presiding Judge Charles Burns. CBS 2's Dana Kozov reports.
Police won't just be handling security and protecting visitors during the NATO Summit.
With just four days to go before the NATO Summit, protesters have already been making their presence known for three days.
Due to staffing shortages, the Cook County Medical Examiner's office has announced that full autopsies will no longer be performed in certain cases in which drugs or alcohol might have led to a person's death.
