Voters in those Illinois counties say they want to separate from Chicago and Cook County, saying voters in urban areas hold an outsized voice in Illinois politics, where Democrats hold a ...

Chicagoans would face increased risks if specialized mosquito abatement districts were weakened or dismantled.

is that the city of Chicago and Cook County have a sizable impact on the policies enacted by the state legislature, and rural counties share different interests that are not being represented by ...

“When I took this job in 2010, county operations were on a mainframe system, which put us maybe in the bottom quarter of counties ... of Cook County in the Daley Center. (Brian Cassella/Chicago ...

In Chicago, they would call ... which it says will bring Cook County into alignment with how the rest of the state operates, including the 81 counties overseen by the Office of Statewide Pretrial ...

Some parts of the Chicago ... in Lake County. Illinois was not immune from storm damage either, as a 74 mile-per-hour wind gust was recorded in Ford Heights in suburban Cook County.

The bill also would require all counties with more than 75,000 people to create a sheriff's merit board. Current state law only requires Cook County to have an independent board overseeing ...