Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke vowed to “not back down” from defending the ordinance, saying assault weapons “have no place in our communities.”

After the Supreme Court announced it would take up a challenge to Cook County's assault weapons ban, State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke said she is ready to defend the law before the high court.

Tucked in between one of the busiest Illinois tollways, a heavily traveled main street and a Nicor gas pipeline is the final resting place of some of the earliest settlers to what would become the

Toni Preckwinkle sent the list of her proposed new transit board appointees — who must be approved by the Cook County board — to county commissioners in a letter dated Tuesday.

The Cook County Sheriff's Office has been a part of Illinois' enhanced CTA security plan and state-led task force dedicated to making it safe since the end of March. Their officers have worked more than 4,

A “serial mail thief” was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to two counts of felony burglary after stealing mail from apartment and condo buildings in Cook County, the United States Postal Inspection Service announced on Tuesday.

The new hourly rate is $17.05 in Chicago and $15.40 across Cook County. Jose Uribe with the group Arise Chicago joins us to tell us how we got here.

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An Oak Lawn man was found with a loaded gun, cash and drugs inside his car during a traffic stop on Chicago’s South Side.

The minimum wage increases for workers in Chicago and Cook County take effect Wednesday.

The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether cities and states may ban people from owning AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, taking up a major Second Amendment dispute that it had previously declined to address.