Critics of the Cook County state’s attorney are attacking her recalibrating an office that had drifted away from holding ...

A new CBS News Chicago Investigators analysis shows key differences in the way some defendants were handled under the two ...

State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke's prosecutors are routinely asking judges to keep suspects in jail until trial when ...

This story was produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago that investigates issues of equity and justice in ...

We met with Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and were disheartened to hear that her people still can’t say when property tax bills will be ready.

A woman from Cook County has been released from the McLean County Jail after authorities said she broke into a man's car and ...

A spokesman from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office told CBS News Chicago that their office does not conduct independent investigations into criminal conduct and does not have jurisdiction over ...

Cook County commissioners are calling on other county officeholders to help sound the alarm if federal immigration agents turn up at county courthouses and other public facilities, but some officials ...

Fioretti said he will announce his candidacy for Illinois Attorney General on Tuesday afternoon at Manny's Deli.

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