The Latest Breaking News from Cook County

While the estimated budget hole is larger than the $18.2 million gap projected last year, it is one of the county’s smallest deficits in the last decade. Government leaders said that hiring hasn’t budged much in the past year. “We do need to staff up,” Cook County Board President Preckwinkle…

Stamps was one of six candidates interviewed Tuesday evening by Democratic leaders representing the Chicago wards and suburban townships that make up the district that Johnson was previously elected to serve as a Cook County commissioner.

Attorney Matthew Fakhoury said Judge Williams Hooks “stereotypically” commented about people accused of domestic violence and said “Middle Eastern men are also controlling and abusive.”

It’s pretty obvious that civil asset forfeiture, whether federal or local, is an unethical, flawed system that violates due process and harms our already marginalized neighbors. It’s time to end it, one advocate writes.

Andrew Castro, 36, allegedly sexually abused three students who, at his request, referred to him as “godfather,” Cook County prosecutors said Friday during his bond hearing.

Cook County Judge Paul Pavlus said he didn’t find the testimony of the boy or his friends who witnessed the confrontation credible.

Thousands of Chicago and Cook County residents got $500 a month the past year. They say the money provided a cushion but wasn’t enough to help them get ahead.

In these days of rampant virtue signaling, politicians, corporations and socially wired individuals all try to convince you that they care the most about doing the right thing. Alas, while we’ve all been recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, plenty of old-fashioned grifters have seized the day.

An officer finally used a stun gun to subdue Dani Rubio, 32, who had a blood alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit and was carrying crack cocaine in his pocket, according to Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Aldina Vulic.

The Cook County Board will be asked to sign off on an identical $7.25 million settlement to compensate Arthur Brown for alleged prosecutorial misconduct, according to his attorney.

Patricia Martin was ordered last month to pay $1.2 million after she failed to turn over records or answer questions about her handling of Oscar Lawton Wilkerson Jr.’s money.