CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Sheriff's Office says an inmate who has been hospitalized since July 6 with pneumonia-like symptoms has tested positive for Legionnaire's disease, but says it is an ...

The Ford Heights man was drinking from a bottle of Hennessy and a vodka cocktail when sheriff's police pulled up, and he ran, ...

Tails of Redemption is a program from the Cook County Sheriff's Office, pairing up inmates at the Cook County Jail with shelter dogs.. Now they're helping others as therapy dogs.

CHICAGO -- Five inmates were injured during a fight at Cook County Jail Friday, jail officials said. Officials said a fight broke out around 1:30 p.m. among inmates in the jail's super-max division.

NILES, Ill. (WLS) -- A now-former Cook County Corrections employee was found guilty in a deadly 2023 shooting outside of a Niles nightclub, police said. The shooting happened in April 2023 in the ...

The Cook County Sheriff's Office said 14 people had been arrested as of 10 a.m. outside the Broadview ICE facility Friday ...

Officers from the Sheriff's housing Assistance Resource Program (SHARP) distributed everyday essentials to Chicagoans in need, just in time for the winter storm.

With a symbolic groundbreaking on Oct. 28, a project years in the making is officially underway. County leaders held a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on an expansion to the Law ...