Cook County commissioners approved roughly $48 million in legal settlements Thursday, including $7.45 million each to two men who won a record jury verdict after wrongfully spending 16 years ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Aretha Miller holds up a photo of her missing sister, Cheretha Morrison, during the fifth Cook County Missing Persons Day at the Cook County medical examiner ...

Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a ...

Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele was arrested for driving while intoxicated last fall. The case is still pending, but Steele hopes to distance herself from the incident and ...

The “I Speak” Card initiative was spearheaded by 13th District Commissioner Josina Morita and was announced as part of Cook County’s “Language Access Month,” which is being recognized ...

With some residents facing record-high increases to their property taxes, Cook County commissioners on Thursday approved giving one-time payments of $1,000 to a limited number of households ...

Cook County’s pilot program to provide guaranteed income to more than 3,000 people did what it was intended to do, early findings suggest — it helped provide some economic stability.

(Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) The competition comes two years after Cook County adopted a new design to replace its own “seal on a bedsheet ... if desired. Each logo would fit into a circle ...

Illinois and Cook County's minimum wage will soon go up once again. Beginning in 2025, the state and county's minimum wage will officially increase to $15 an hour for non-tipped employees.

When looking at the ABCs of Ross County the G stands for Great Seal. The Seal of Ohio was adopted in the 1800s and features hills, a river, a field, a wheat bushel and 17 arrows all in front of a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Democratic Party has named an interim Cook County Clerk and a candidate for the November election Friday following the death of Karen Yarbrough. The Cook County ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough has died after she was hospitalized last week with an undisclosed medical condition, one of her top aides confirms. She was 73. In a statement ...