New drop box features a surveillance camera to record who drops off ballots, an electronic screen to confirm successful ...

A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging Cook County strips homeowners of equity when auctioning ...

ILLINOIS (WTVO) — The citizens of seven additional Illinois counties have voted to consider splitting from Chicago and Cook County and forming a new state. All seven counties that had a ballot ...

The Chicago area’s population is finally growing again, with the metro area and Cook County among those nationally that added the most total residents last year, according to new Census Bureau ...

Cook County and Chicago are under an Extreme Heat Warning starting Saturday morning, a Heat Advisory has been issued for the entire rest of the Chicago area, and an Extreme Heat Watch in parts of ...

Four people were injured, three critically, in a mass shooting near the Cook County Courthouse early Saturday morning, ...

Site Selection has taken note, too, and ranked Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will among the Top 20 counties in the nation for economic development. Cook County came in second, followed by DuPage at No. 9 ...

The county lost 68,000 people between July 2021 and July 2022, the second-greatest decline among all U.S. counties during that period, behind only Los Angeles County, which lost 91,000, according ...

The population loss bucks a larger trend in the Midwest and nationwide, the bureau noted. More U.S. counties experienced population gains than losses in 2023. But after the census undercounted ...

ILLINOIS (WTVO) — The citizens of seven additional Illinois counties have voted to consider splitting from Chicago and Cook County and forming a new state.