In Chicagoland, we will not tolerate criminal actions designed to frighten and prevent women from exercising their ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is expanding a pilot program that lets Chicago police to directly file charges in some gun cases.

The Cook County State's Attorney primary race between Democrats Clayton Harris III and Eileen O'Neill Burke is too close to call, and may be for several days.

Which puts the Cook County state’s attorney — the elected official responsible for 700 lawyers prosecuting crimes among a population greater than Ireland’s — in a bind.

With public safety being a top issue for voters, the next Cook County State's Attorney will have to strike between pressure for criminal justice reform and criminal accountability.

Former Chicago alderman and civil rights attorney Bob Fioretti is running on the republican ticket for Cook County State's Attorney.

Cook County's top prosecutor questions safety of electronic monitoring under chief judge State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic ...

The Cook County state's attorney has been accused of threatening a witness in a murder case Civil rights lawyer Jennifer Bonjean told Judge Carol Howard she believed State’s Attorney Eileen O ...

Two Democrats are facing off in the primary election for Cook County’s top prosecutor: Eileen O’Neill Burke, a moderate and retired appellate judge, and Clayton Harris III, a progressive who ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday she won't be running for re-election next year. "I am announcing today that, at the conclusion of my term in November of ...

COOK COUNTY, IL — Eileen O'Neill Burke is running on the Democratic ticket for Cook County State's Attorney. Burke is facing Republican opponent Bob Fioretti and Libertarian Andrew Kopinski.

At a court hearing Wednesday, the Cook County State’s Attorney Office dropped felony battery charges against Ald. Colby ...