News from around the Southland includes items from Palos Heights, Beverly, Oak Lawn, Chicago Heights, Blue Island, Mokena and ...

A 24-year-old man who faces charges in connection with a road-rage incident in Davenport has been arrested on a warrant, according to Scott County Court records. Juan Jinez (Scott County Jail) ...

Smith, 35, of Topeka, was arrested and booked into the Shawnee County Jail in connection with possession of an opiate, opium, ...

Antonio McDowell was the 51st individual to be exonerated in a case involving the misconduct of disgraced Chicago Police ...

A Cook County man is behind bars after authorities say they found a loaded gun and suspected marijuana in his car during a ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least seven jail precincts across the country, including one in Cook County, have implemented in-person voting to mitigate these challenges. During the 2018 primary, less than 7% of those ...

CHICAGO - Beyond the barbed wire and locked doors at Cook County Jail's Division 11, something significant is happening not many know about. Through a civics class, Nathaniel Carswell and others ...

A corrections officer could be heard shouting commands Thursday morning in a concrete yard of Division 19 at the Cook County jail. But the detainees weren’t being bossed around. Instead ...

Cook County’s jailed population has shrunk by more than half over the past decade, but the massive reduction hasn’t led to big savings for taxpayers or a major boost in funding for crime ...