In the waning days of Springfield’s spring session, Cook County leaders appear to have ended a years-long stalemate, ...

Cook County prosecutors are asking judges to issue arrest warrants for people with cases in traffic court who had already been deported.

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A critic took issue this week with a Cook County Treasurer's office study​ that calls into question the economic cost-benefit ...

A critic took issue this week with a Cook County Treasurer's office study​ that calls into question the economic cost-benefit ...

Judge Erica Reddick on Thursday dismissed the arguments of a broad coalition that sought to install an outside lawyer to ...

According to the Cook County Treasurer's Office, about 81% of Cook County residents saw increases to their property taxes, while 17 percent had less and 2% saw the same bill. Chicago's northwest ...

Cook County is on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to homeowners who lost their homes and equity as a result of the annual county tax sale, a judge has ruled.

"The county did not need to receive an engraved notice to understand that its actions—taking private property without providing just compensation—constituted a 'classic' violation of the Fifth ...

One in 12 accused criminals in Cook County's electronic monitoring program are currently AWOL, according to a new report from ...