A 21-year-old fugitive in Cook County is on the run after escaping electronic monitoring and removing his GPS tracking device ...

Two men with felony records are facing new gun and drug charges after a Cook County Sheriff's police investigation.

Lake County license plate readers detected the car involved in an Amber Alert for a missing 8-year-old boy near I-65 and U.S.

Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer whose rich, steady baritone graced such hits as "For Your Precious Love," "Only the ...

Robert Johnson was 16 years old when he was arrested in 1996 on charges of murder, home invasion and armed robbery and was ...

Tobolski told a judge in September 2020 that he’d engaged in multiple extortion and bribery schemes, accepting more than $250 ...

A man who has spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit walked out of the Cook County Jail on ...

A 43-year-old Hickman man was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

Macomb County has been sending inmates to other county jails in recent weeks and soon will start farming out more of them to accommodate the renovation portion of the $229-million jail project.

Gang activity is growing in the Napa Valley, and local law enforcement, educators and nonprofits should work more closely to combat its root causes, according to a Napa County grand jury report ...

it has long been our practice to work with all federal agents who provide arrest warrants authorizing them to take custody of individuals being detained at the Cook County Jail. As recently as ...

It mentions Cook County’s statute, which bans ICE agents from the jail and other facilities unless they have a criminal warrant unrelated to immigration. Chicago’s sanctuary designation has ...