First responders used an ice rescue sled to get closer to the dog, but it kept running away.

A 23-year-old man, Anthony Aguirre, was indicted after drug-soaked paper strips were allegedly found in his pants during a search at Cook County Jail. The strips tested positive for synthetic ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. – A 23-year-old man in custody at the Cook County Jail has been indicted on a possession of contraband in a penal institution charge after he was found with strips of drug ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants to get out of the electronic monitoring business. He says because of a provision of the Illinois SAFE-T Act, he is unable to properly ensure public safety.

Surveillance footage obtained by WGN News shows an inmate being beaten for nearly a minute at Cook County Jail last year. The correctional officer accused of the beating has been charged.

Shamone Duncan was one of two people killed in Turks and Caicos over the weekend. She was there celebrating her sister's 40th ...

The means staff are constantly rotating inmates to use the whole building. One solution that's been proposed is having the jail hold some detainees from the Cook County Department of Corrections.

A Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy was shot and killed in Turks and Caicos Saturday night. According to a statement from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, Shamone A. Duncan was on vacation in ...

BUREAU CO., Ill. (KWQC) - The Bureau County Board reviewed an agreement Tuesday night that would allow the Bureau County Jail to house inmates from Cook County. The proposed Intergovernmental ...

A group calling to free those who have been wrongfully convicted rallied outside as Cook County States Attorney Eileen ...

Repro Legal Defense Fund, a reproductive and abortion rights group, bailed out the mother accused of killing "Baby Skylar" at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, so why did they get involved?