Burr Oak Monument Honors Victims Of Burial Scandal
After touring the now pristine cemetery, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the change there over the past five years has been remarkable.
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After touring the now pristine cemetery, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the change there over the past five years has been remarkable.
Although numbers are vague, the crime of human trafficking presents a real challenge to law enforcement and welfare agencies, who have teamed up to try to raise awareness of troubled children who end up being manipulated or forced into prostitution.
Authorities have reopened the botched investigation into the 1991 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, which was wrongfully blamed on the so-called "Dixmoor 5," some of whom spent two decades in prison.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has called the jail the largest mental health hospital in the country.
They say they were reprimanded for supporting Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's opponent and now 21 Cook County Sheriff's Police officers are preparing to collect a $2.4 million settlement.
The Cook County Board is expected to settle a federal lawsuit brought by 21 deputies who allege Sheriff Tom Dart retaliated against them because they backed his political opponent when he was running sheriff in 2006.
Could you be driving around with fake airbags and not know it? That's what Cook County investigators want to know after they found two dozen counterfeit airbags at a southwest suburban auto shop.
Of the sheriff's objections, 77 are based on the applicants' gun crimes, 88 are based on applicants' domestic violence records, and 52 are based on applicants' battery and assault records.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is attempting to tackle a major problem, using jail inmates as laborers.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart met with two trustees from the village of Robbins Wednesday, but deferred any decision on taking command of the suburb's police department.
Dart announced the plan after Robbins police and village officials failed to remove a police administrator whose policing credentials have been challenged by a state regulatory agency.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said he favors criminal prosecutions of school bullies who take things too far.
Three times in the last year, inmates have been mistakenly released from Cook County Jail.
For many, the only psychiatric care they ever get is when they are incarcerated. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
A new team from the Cook County Sheriff's Office has launched an effort to seize guns from thousands of people whose state gun permits have been revoked.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart predicted several months ago that summer would bring a dramatic increase in the population of the jail, and that's come true, but he said they're managing so far.
Cook County Sheriff's police credited a new online crime tips feature with helping solve the murder of a college student.
A memorial service was held Thursday morning for a Cook County Sheriff's deputy killed by a hit-and-run driver as she was crossing the street to go to work exactly one year ago.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said his department doesn't have the manpower, the time, or the money to properly conduct background checks for those who want to carry concealed weapons within the time required under a new state law.
John Wayne Gacy was known to have worked inside and around a home where his mom once lived. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli has exclusive video from inside that building.
This was not Boris Spassky vs. Bobby Fischer. First, it was a match between prison inmates, not world class chess masters. Second, the Russians won this time.
Dart said he's worried about a stalemate in the General Assembly on a law to license people to carry concealed guns. If legislators don't meet a June 9 court deadline to pass such a law, anyone with a state firearm owner's identification card could legally walk anywhere in public with a concealed weapon.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants all suburban police departments in the county to be part of a federal tracing program for guns seized during crimes.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans on Friday defended the decision to begin implementing a ban on cell phones and other electronic communication at courthouses, saying he's concerned about witnesses being intimidated, or worse.
The search for more possible victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy is now in the hands of the FBI.
