Cook County

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx preemptively announced that she will not prosecute protesters who are “peaceful” at the DNC.

A North Carolina woman died at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Thursday morning after becoming “entangled” in a luggage carousel, officials said.

ABC 7 noted that, as of Sunday, July 7, 2024 — the last day of the July 4, 2024, weekend — Chicago was nearly at 1,200 shootings for 2024.

The progressive candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney is suddenly closing the gap after more than 10,000 votes were suddenly “found” in Chicago.

Officials have reportedly implemented updated rules to keep people from trying to smuggle drug-laced papers into Illinois’ Cook County Jail. 

A 27-year-old Minnesota man is accused of fatally beating an elderly sex offender to death on Wednesday, using a shovel and moose antler.

Police say a man committed an armed robbery on a Chicago sidewalk and then began chowing down on a takeout order of fried chicken.

Cook County, Illinois, Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Sheriff Tom Dart are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to hold them responsible for the killing of a Vietnam War veteran allegedly at the hands of two accused criminals released from jail on electronic home monitoring.

A convicted felon in Chicago, who was on bail, is being accused by prosecutors of armed robbery and shooting a man, CWB Chicago reported.

A convict who allegedly carjacked a woman eating lunch in her vehicle in Chicago was already on parole for shooting someone and on electronic monitoring after a firearm possession charge. 

A man who allegedly shot a Chicago police officer in June was arrested in Burlington, Iowa, on Wednesday, according to the Chicago Police Department (CPD)

The family of a woman who was the victim of an apparent murder-suicide is suing the Cook County sheriff and chief judge, claiming they bear responsibility for her death by placing the alleged murderer in an electronic monitoring program they knew was not being adequately managed.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s husband, Kelley Foxx, called police to their Illinois home for an incident involving his daughter, one week after officers were dispatched to their residence, where Kelley told officers that Kim slapped him in the face, according to police reports.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s husband’s 911 call has surfaced days after a police report came to light showing he alleged that Kim became physical and slapped him. Police in Flossmoor, Illinois, some 28 miles south of Chicago, were

The husband of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx called police to their home and claimed she slapped him, per a police report.

Cameron Bowman, 31, of Chicago was sentenced to two years probation after he stole more than half a million dollars in change from his former employer “while working as an armored car driver,” CWB Chicago reports.

A Chicago judge was perplexed why a man was charged with a misdemeanor when the case sounded “more like an aggravated vehicular hijacking.”

A 14-year-old boy is dead after being shot late last month while trying to rob a retired Cook County, Illinois, sheriff’s officer. The retired officer was “distraught” after learning the age of the suspect he shot during the incident.

Jussie Smollett’s sister expressed outrage once the actor was sentenced to jail for 150 days and ordered to pay more than $120,000 in restitution.

Chicago Alderman Michele Smith (D-Ward 43) wants her constituents to wear whistles, which they can blow while running towards armed robbers, should they witness a crime taking place.

The office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb released its full 60-page “summary report” Monday afternoon of its investigation into the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx over her improper handling of the Jussie Smollett case in 2019.

Cook County, Illinois, claimed a grim milestone with over 1,000 homicides in 2021, the highest total since there were 1,141 homicides 27 years ago, the country’s Medical Examiner’s Office said. 

Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett will have to stand trial over his 2019 alleged hate crime hoax after a Cook County judge denied his dismissal request.

Over 300 hundred people have been killed in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago thus far in 2021. 

District Attorneys Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kimberly Foxx in Cook County, Illinois, and Diana Becton in Contra Costa County, California, all of whom have taken campaign donations from billionaire George Soros, are helping criminal illegal aliens avoid deportation from the United States, an investigation reveals. 

Indoor dining will return on a limited basis in Chicago and suburban Cook County for the first time since last fall.

About 1,600 of Illinois’ Cook County employees joined a strike Tuesday amid a dispute regarding pandemic pay and their working conditions.

Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro announced this week that freshmen and sophomore students would be asked to leave campus to mitigate the spread of coronavirus on campus. Many students affected by the decision arrived on campus just days before the announcement.

A judge on Friday denied a request to publish a report on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has dropped over 25,000 felony cases, including charges of murder and the alleged hate crime hoax from former Empire star Jussie Smollett, according to an analysis released by the Chicago Tribune on Monday.

Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett’s attempt to have the criminal charges against him dropped were tossed out by a judge in Chicago on Friday. The Judge dismissed the actor’s claim that the fresh charges against him violate his right against double jeopardy.

The sanctuary county of Cook County, Illinois, released more than 1,000 criminal illegal aliens back into American communities in fiscal year 2019, federal data finds.

The team of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett claims an ambiguous text message he sent to one of his suspected attackers prior to his purported assault was about illegal herbal steroids, not his alleged hate hoax.

Recently released records show disgraced “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett denied to the Chicago Police Department that Abel and Ola Osundairo were his attackers, citing their dark skin color.

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors in Chicago have charged R&B singer R. Kelly with 11 new sex-related counts, including some that carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

A judge in Chicago on Thursday afternoon ordered the files of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s criminal case to be unsealed.