The Latest Breaking News from Cook County

Property owners would be asked to pay about $1.50 more a month in taxes toward the preserves, which became a haven during the pandemic.

With more natural land in a heavily populated area than anywhere else in North America, the preserves are almost like having a national park right here at home.

He was transported to the Unversity of Chicago Medical Center where he later died, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Our 2022 report makes 15 recommendations to the chief judge on how to improve the JTDC’s treatment of youth. Evans could order many of these changes now, without waiting for another committee report.

Timeline tight to get bills out in time for property owners to claim a hefty deduction with the IRS.

Josiah Brown, 3, was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. Sunday, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Victoria Moreno is charged with attempted murder.

A referendum on the ballot is aimed at restoring some 30,000 acres of land.

The Cook County Vehicle License, or a wheel tax, is an annual fee that allows cars registered in unincorporated Cook County to legally drive on roads.

A woman’s face was cut after Judge Carl Boyd threw a bottle at a window, Chicago police said.

Thousands of workers are needed to fill vacancies in the suburbs.

Sterigenics, its parent company and a corporate predecessor should pay $363 million in damages for exposing a Willowbrook, Illinois, woman and thousands of others to cancer-causing ethylene oxide pollution, a Cook County jury decided Monday.