Two people are facing felony gun charges after separate Cook County arrests on the same day. Here's what sheriff's police say ...

The Cook County Sheriff's Office has been a part of Illinois' enhanced CTA security plan and state-led task force dedicated ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. — The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents of a phone scam involving fake warrants. The office said a scammer has been identifying themselves as a member of their agency ...

Cook County’s 911 mental health program gives officers tablets that connect a person in crisis via video to a mental health ...

A Cook County sheriff's deputy shot a man who was stabbing a woman during a domestic violence call on Monday evening in unincorporated Lyons Township, officials said. At around 5:30 p.m., a deputy ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom, and ...

We’ve all been there. Stuck in traffic on an expressway, patiently waiting to inch forward when a car zooms by on the shoulder, its driver showing little concern for common courtesy, safety, or the ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, whose police officers have been deployed on the CTA for several months, said Wednesday that a dedicated police force should be responsible for law enforcement on public ...

WGN Investigates analyzed Chicago's city data portal independently.

A Cook County Sheriff's substation was supposed to open in the South Loop near the Roosevelt CTA Red Line stop on June 1, but now we're learning it could open as soon as Monday. The substation is ...