Illinois experienced 11 disasters in 2024, mostly severe storms, making it the fourth costliest year to date after 2012, 1993 ...

Within the Cook County legal system, 2024 in many ways marked a shift in approach that will be noticeable in local courtrooms ...

A 51-year-old man was arrested in Chicago for failing to register as a sex offender after an investigation by the Cook County ...

The number of opioid overdose deaths in Cook County dropped dramatically in 2024, according to preliminary data released ...

A South Chicago neighborhood couple is starting the new year as husband and wife. Aisha Buford-Morrison, 26, and Terrell ...

Cook County recorded 1,026 confirmed opioid overdose deaths in 2024, a preliminary number as the Medical Examiner’s Office ...

Communities in Illinois will receive a portion of $12 billion in federal disaster recovery funds for severe storms and flooding over the last two years, including $426 million for Chicago, $244 ...

Palatine Township voters will take up some of the state’s most urgent issues at the April 1 election, telling state lawmakers ...

Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon will preside over a special wedding ceremony for the winning couple on Jan. 2, the first ...

Cook graduated as salutatorian in 1978 and was named “most studious.” He told AL.com recently that Dawkins was his favorite teacher. Cook, in a statement to AL.com, said she made English fun every day ...

Former Cook County state’s attorney candidate Clayton Harris III on Thursday will take over as chief of staff to House ...

The number of opioid overdose deaths in Cook County dropped dramatically in 2024, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Last year in Cook ...