The Latest Breaking News from Cook County

The fatal attacks included a shooting early Sunday outside a bar in the Loop, and a man who was found with a gunshot wound in Old Town on the Near North Side.

Wait times are “appalling,” one board members says with a quarter of the jobs at the safety net health system open and staff morale low.

Featured prominently in the 2019 Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly,” Van Allen is now a key witness in an alleged early-2000s conspiracy to recover tapes of Kelly sexually abusing an underage girl and to rig his earlier 2008 child pornography trial in Cook County.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

The retired child psychologist Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans named to head the committee that issued the report criticizes Evans for not moving swiftly to make changes.

CHICAGO — The second week of R. Kelly’s Chicago federal trial continued Tuesday with cross-examination of Lawrence Berkland, a lie-detector test administrator, as prosecutors outlined an alleged conspiracy to cover up Kelly’s alleged sexual misconduct before his Cook County criminal trial.

In announcing murder charges against Tavis Dunbar, 34, police said they were still without a motive and have no evidence yet that the attack was a hate crime.

Johnson, a Cook County commissioner, hit Mayor Lori Lightfoot on a number of issues on which he feels she has “failed miserably,” and said he would soon announce his decision whether to run for mayor.

Sean M. Dwyer was caught with more than 1.6 kilograms of cocaine last week, according to authorities, who did not release the deputy’s name.