The May 2 death of a Hampshire man resulting from a beating April 23 in West Dundee has been deemed a homicide by the Cook ...

A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually ...

The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail never did.

A warrant has been issued for Richard Donta J. Cotton's arrest. The Cook County Sheriff's police and the Chicago Police Department are searching for him.

As questions continue to swirl over a puzzling investigation in the northwest suburbs, new details are emerging about the ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself ... because she thought she had a great shot at actually beating her case. But, she says ...

A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually assault them at knifepoint after one of them complained about forced ...