Pastors visit Cook County Jail for Christmas, post bond for two inmates. ... No presents or cards were in sight, but a room at the jail was filled with cheer and people who care.

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Cook County jail detainees work with dogs Thursday as part of the jail's Tails of Redemption program. Courtesy of Cook County Sheriff “This program is a win for everyone,” Sheriff Tom Dart said.

When 2-year-old K.D. walked with his aunt inside the waiting area of the Maximum Security Division at Cook County Jail to visit his father, he smiled. Unlike all the other times his aunt had brough… ...

Inside Division 11 at the Cook County Jail, there's joy and celebration. Over 100 low to medium-level detainees were met with holiday cheer and greetings as they filed in for Christmas mass.

According to deputies, the charges were handed down after McDowell allegedly attempted to smuggle narcotics in the diaper of a 9-month-old baby during a visit with an inmate at the Cook County Jail.

A detainee makes a phone call in a room used for fingerprinting and processing in an underground area at Cook County Jail in Chicago on April 16, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) ...

Sheriff Dart said Cook County’s example shows a chess program can flourish in any prison, noting the jail launched the program when the inmate population hovered around 11,000, about double the ...

At Cook County Jail, behind locked doors, barricades, fences and razor wire, in a barren room, about 40 men sat in tan county jail uniforms, ... Call 1-933-2FINDHELP or visit ILHelpline.org.

The attorney for a man who was trapped in a Cook County Jail visiting room for 30 hours says the man feared he might not be found before he died.