The Latest Breaking News from Cook County

During Foxx’s two terms, the state’s attorney’s office has vacated more than 200 convictions over allegations of misconduct.

Eileen O’Neill Burke, a retired Illinois Appellate Court judge and a former Cook County assistant state’s attorney, filed more than 13,000 signatures to run as a Democrat for Cook County state’s attorney — the last day candidates had to file petitions for the March primary.

Alex Alvarado, 19, was shot Aug. 20 and remained hospitalized for more than three months. He died Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Public officials celebrated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new American Blues Theater on the Northwest Side, activists held a vigil for people who have died while detained at Cook County Jail, and construction workers began framing a “winterized base camp” for asylum-seekers in Chicago.

The sheriff’s office said that of the 16 people who died in custody at the jail in 2023, five were overdoses and four were due to natural causes. Two were slain.

The online education tool, “Where Your Money Goes,” calculates the money owed to each school district or other local unit of government in the past two years — showing the increase or decrease from the year before.

A slew of statewide and county candidates filed petitions with the Illinois State Board of Elections and the Cook County clerk’s office on the first day of the week-long filing period to gain a spot on the March 19 primary ballot.

Patricia Martin, former head of the juvenile court’s child protection division, will fight charges that she stole more than $300,000 from a WWII vet, her attorney said.

Calumet City Mayor Thaddeus Jones said, “You have to understand how devastating the Sept. 17 flooding was…some residents have lost everything in the house,”

The move by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office comes weeks after WBEZ and the Sun-Times identified officers who appeared on leaked membership rolls for the anti-government group.

Maria Pike sought closure for more than a decade. Now, with the man who killed her son Ricky paroled, she told a Cook County judge that justice hasn’t been served.