Investigators Seek Leads In LaGrange Home Attack
Cook County sheriff's investigators are seeking clues into a violent home invasion that left one man shot and another beaten by masked gunmen in the Highlands subdivision in LaGrange.
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Cook County sheriff's investigators are seeking clues into a violent home invasion that left one man shot and another beaten by masked gunmen in the Highlands subdivision in LaGrange.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle wants to know what went wrong with a program designed to help repair flood-damaged homes.
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is pushing the County Board to pass an ordinance requiring all local taxing districts to reveal their pension fund shortfalls.
Another ruling is expected in a short time in the residency fight for mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel.
Seven people were arrested and two wounded pit bulls rescued by sheriff's police who raided a dogfight in progress in the west suburbs last week.
Cook County Clerk David Orr has some surprises for the first couple in line this year to get a marriage license.
The Cook County Sheriff's Department challenges the allegations and says independent witnesses at the accident scene would have 'prevented the scenario from happening.'
Police say a man found dead Wednesday night in his East Chicago neighborhood was murdered.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he is willing to help the new County Board President Toni Preckwinkle bridge the county's budget gap, but he says there are limits.
More than 180 flights have been canceled at O'Hare and Midway airports following a lake effect storm that dumped nearly four inches of snow in parts of Chicago, and more than nine inches in one northern suburb.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he will provide spiritual guidance, but not holiday celebration, for 10,000 inmates in the jail under his control.
Cook County sheriff's police have seized nearly $3 million in drugs from a man who was receiving suspicious packages in his Morgan Park neighborhood home.
A former inmate is suing the Cook County Jail, claiming he didn't receive the medication he needed while behind bars.
A onetime aide to former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is due in court for an arraignment this morning.
Hundreds of county staffers are being sent to school for training on right and wrong.
A taxpayer watchdog group is out with a recommendation – simplify Cook County's complicated property tax system.
Bond was set at $300,000 Thursday for a Cook County hospital employee charged with sexually assaulting at Cook County Jail inmate at Cermak Hospital.
Four members of a Tinley Park family have been charged with felony drug charges after Cook County Sheriff's police broke up a million-dollar "designer" marijuana ring they were running out of their house.
Political patronage will cost the Cook County Forest Preserve District more than half a million dollars.
Toni Preckwinkle breezed through her first meeting as Cook County Board President on Tuesday, wrapping up the meeting in less than 90 minutes, a rarity at the County Building.
As Cook County grapples with how to close a half-billion-dollar budget deficit next year, top bosses at the county's health and hospitals system have doled out pay raises to a smattering of top administrators, the largest a $40,000 pay bump.
'At Issue' guest Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says some of the county departments under her control may not face budget cuts as deep as the 21 percent she is demanding from other elected officials.
In his first week in office, Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios already was taking heat from critics after putting his son and his sister on the public payroll at his office.
In his first days as Cook County Assessor, Joe Berrios is already putting his family members on the payroll.
